Connor Norton - China proposes removal of two-term limit, potentially paving way for President Xi Jinping to stay on

This past Sunday the ruling Communist Party in China announced its intentions to remove the two term limit set on Chinese presidents before the end of the second term of current communist leader Xi Jinping, who would then be able to run for re-election in 2023. This has widely been seen by Chinese political analysts as a show of Xi's personal power and wants wining dominance over the wants of the Chinese establishment, and though the lack of leaks and reveal before the party session make this announcement somewhat odd, it still functions as an important reminder of Xi Jinping's intentions to maintain his power and position in the Chinese government. It is also important to note that rolling back the restriction would act in direct contradiction to the wills of Xi's predecessors, who may have continued to play key roles in Chinese life but only had official government roles for 10 years; some have even gone so far as to call the instating of Xi Jinping as the uncontested ruler of China a return to the "Mao era".

This ties to the time in American history in which FDR ran for and won the presidency 4 times before dying of internal bleeding in the head while president, an unprecedented number of times to serve in the oval office. After George Washington served only two terms, every other president had done the same (if they could) before FDR ran for the office 4 times in the name of pushing his domestic economic policy and leading the nation through WWII, which ended soon after he died in his 4th term. Congress, however, was scared by FDR's lengthy stay in the west wing, passing the two-term limit with the 22nd amendment; and no one has ran for more than two terms since.

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