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China Moves to Let Xi Stay in Power by Abolishing Term Limit President Xi Jinping of China at the Communist Party congress in Beijing last October. Current law restricts the president to two terms. Credit How Hwee Young/European Pressphoto Agency BEIJING — China’s Communist Party has cleared the way for President Xi Jinping to stay in power indefinitely, by announcing Sunday that it intends to abolish term limits on the presidency, a momentous break with decades-old rules meant to prevent the country from returning to the days when Mao was shown cultish obedience. The surprise move, revealed in a dryly worded proposal to amend the Constitution, is the boldest yet by Mr. Xi as he seeks to strengthen the party’s control over a modernizing society and restore China to what he considers its rightful place as a global power — an agenda that his allies have suggested req
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