Despite a contested management of the COVID, the Chinese leader who holds the country with an iron fist is guaranteed to obtain a third mandate as secretary general of the party during the 20th Congress, which opens on Sunday 16 October
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To qualify his work, Xi Jinping no longer hesitates to speak of “miracle”. Or even “double miracle”, according to the resolution on the history of the Chinese Communist Party (CPC) adopted by the Central Committee, in November 2021, which affirms that the Chinese president “put an end to absolute poverty” and maintains that ” The population flows a peaceful and laborious existence: stability is the Chinese social miracle “. When he opened, Sunday, October 16, with a long speech, the XX e Congress of the PCC, the Chinese Head of State since March 2013 should continue on this register.
Rhetoric intended to make people forget that, since 2010, the growth rate is lower each year, that 20 % of urban young people are currently unemployed, and that the “end of absolute poverty” does not prevent ” Six hundred million Chinese [to live] with less than 1,000 yuan [150 euros] per month “, according to the confession of the Prime Minister, Li Keqiang, in 2020.
At the same time, the country is locked in its policy of zero covid, which imposes restrictions in the daily life of hundreds of millions of citizens and around draconian forty province to the other hazardous.
On the international level, the balance sheet of Xi Jinping is not particularly glorious either. His flagship project of “new silk roads”, which had to bring “happiness to the world and to all its peoples” gets bogged down and relations with the United States have never been so bad for half a century . But Xi Jinping is not one to question: “The most dangerous moment is when conviction begins to vacillate,” he said in 2013. Against winds and tides, we must continue to Promise tomorrows that sing: “There is no doubt that we will be able to produce new miracles that will amaze the world and pulverize its prevention towards us”, indicates resolution on history.
in the line Chinese emperors
For this, the party is preparing to entrust to Xi Jinping a third term as secretary general, which he will accumulate with that of President of the Republic and President of the Central Military Commission. However, to avoid any risk of a maintenance in power of a senile dictator, as was Mao Zedong at the end of his life, his successor, Deng Xiaoping, had imposed, in 1982, a college direction and made the constitution modify so that no President of the Republic can exercise more than two five -year terms.
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