BEIJING (AP) — China on Sunday opened a twice-a-decade Communist Party conference at which leader Xi Jinping is anticipated to receive a 3rd five-year term that breaks with recent precedent and establishes him as arguably probably the most powerful Chinese politician since Mao Zedong.
Xi is anticipated to issue a lengthy address on the opening session, but little change is foreseen in China’s strict one-party rule, intolerance of criticism and hard-line approach toward COVID-19 including quarantines and travel bans.
As with most Chinese political events, little information has been released beforehand and the congress’ end result will only be announced after days of closed-door sessions.
How much has been decided upfront and the way much continues to be to be hashed out in face-to-face meetings stays unknown.
Greater than 2,000 of the party’s 96 million members are attending the weeklong meeting on the hulking Great Hall of the People in the middle of Beijing.
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