The Chinese Are Making President Xi Jinping The Next Mao
This is the last thing we need. China has just made it official that they are going to allow their President, Xi Jinping, run for a 3rd term. They have only done this twice before with General Mao and Deng Xiaoping. We could have used a less aggressive Chinese leader, one that was instead looking for peace as opposed to eventual world domination.
"Leaders of China's ruling Communist Party on Thursday set the stage for President Xi Jinping to extend his rule next year, praising his role in the country's rise as an economic and strategic power and approving a political history that gives him status alongside the most important party figures.
Central Committee members declared Xi’s ideology the “essence of Chinese culture” as they wrapped up a leadership meeting. In unusually effusive language even for a Chinese leader, a party statement said it was “of decisive significance” for “the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.”
Xi, who has amassed more personal authority than any leader since at least Deng Xiaoping in the 1980s, has widely been expected to pursue a third five-year term as party general secretary. That would break with a two-decade-old party tradition that would require the 68-year-old leader to step down next year.
The party leadership's resolution on its history is only the third since its founding 100 years ago, following one under Mao Zedong, the first leader of the Communist government, and another under Deng, who launched reforms that turned China into an economic powerhouse. The decision to issue one under Xi symbolically raises him to their status."
President Xi Jinping is pretty ruthless, I bet if they didn't give him the 3rd term he would have taken it by force. China has the world's second-largest military budget and they are surpassing us in many ways already. The troubling thing is that Jinping is all for Chinese dominance, so he probably will invade Taiwan during his 3rd term, which will bring us into direct conflict with a world power.