Zach Crawford
The Third Consecutive Election of Chinese President: The Ring Against His Predecessor During the Closing Ceremony of the Congress
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Chinese President Xi Jinping has been confirmed for a third term as head of the Chinese Communist Party. Never has the General Secretary been re-elected three times in a row as General Secretary of the Communist Party of China. This was announced to Chinese and international media by Xi himself, at the end of the first plenary session of the XX Central Committee, where he introduced the other six members of the new permanent Politburo. The party’s highest organ represents the undisputed authority of the Chinese president, as evidenced in the video in which his predecessor Hu Jintao is seen being carried during the conference.
Re-election for a third consecutive term
waiting As reiterated by the President of ChinaIn a formal transition scheduled for early next year, Xi Jinping remains chairman of the Central Military Commission as commander-in-chief of China’s armed forces.
“Let me introduce the comrades of the new Standing Committee,” he said. something From the golden hall platform of the Great Hall of the People.
On the podium, the procession of the seven members of the Politburo: the second person of the party is Li Qiang, 65, the party chief of Shanghai, despite the failed management of the Covid epidemic; number three in the hierarchy Zhao Leji, 65; In fourth place is Wang Huning, 67, party theorist; Number Five Party leader Tsai Chi in the capital, Beijing; Number six is Ding Shuxiang, Xi’s chief of staff.
“The world needs China,” the president said. “China cannot develop without the world, the world also needs China,” he said again, praising the country’s “two miracles”: “rapid economic development and long-term social stability.”
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Former Chinese President Hu Jintao takes the life of Xi Jinping
Former Chinese President Hu Jintao
During the work of the congress, one of the incidents caused an uproar among the members of the Chinese party. In the middle of the closing ceremonyFormer Chinese President Hu Jintao was suddenly kidnapped by two clerks and escorted out of the Great Hall of the People.
Hu, 79, was sitting to the left of President Xi Jinping when he was forced to rise from his seat in front of cameras and more than 2,000 delegates, despite his will and great surprise.
the scene
Li Zhanshu, one of the seven members of the Politburo Standing Committee sitting next to him, seemed so frightened of what was happening, that he tried to get up before he was arrested by Wang Huning, another member of the committee.
The photos show the former president Hu refusing a host who first tried to grab him by the arm to get him out of his front row seat from the conference room.
Then the writer tried to lift the former leader with both hands from the armpit and after a verbal exchange of about a minute between Hu Jintao, Xi and Prime Minister Li Keqiang, the former president was expelled.
Shi was photographed holding papers on his desk as he tried to grab them. He patted Lee on the shoulder as he left, most of the leaders staring at the audience.
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