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In what the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China has called “a historic resolution” it has strengthened the power of President Xi Jinping at the head of the party. This opens the way to a new “era” that will begin, if there is not an unexpected turn, with a third term for Xi Jinping as president of the Asian country.
Five years, five years, is how long the term of each Central Committee, the highest body of power in the Chinese Communist Party, usually lasts. Currently, the party, which turned 100 in 2021, lives under the mandate of the XVIII Central Committee, which can undoubtedly be considered as the one that elevated the figure of Xi Jinping to the Olympus of communist leaders in China.
In each five years, the members of the Committee (currently about 370) meet in an average of 7 plenary sessions, of which the sixth is usually the most important due to the advances of the future of the party and the country, which usually come out of them. True to tradition, the sixth plenary session of this Central Committee has left a “historic resolution” that anticipates a “new era” under a third term of the current president, Xi Jinping, something forbidden before the previous Committee restored it.
Xi Jinping will thus be equated with such important figures as Mao Zedong or Deng Xiaoping, a path already begun in the sixth plenary session of the previous Central Committee, when he was appointed “center” of the party, a position previously held only by Zedong and Xiaoping. Under the mandates of both, the other two only resolutions on the history of the party were also signed.
The resolution of this Thursday affirms that Xi Jinping “has presented a series of new and original ideas, thoughts and strategies on national governance, around the main issues of our times” and that thanks to him, China has achieved “the immense transformation to stand up, become prosperous and become a strong nation ”.
A modern China under the command of a single leader
“The Central Committee calls on the entire party, the entire Army and the people of all ethnic groups to unite around the Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as its core, to launch the new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics,” the statement states.
With him, he delves into the declaration of Xi Jinping as the sole leader of the party. The son of a senior party official, he made a career within the Chinese bureaucracy until he was appointed in 2012 as General Secretary of the CCP. Seen then as a figure capable of harmonizing the different families of the party, he was appointed president of the People’s Republic of China in 2013.
Since then it has been accumulating power and reducing that of its rivals, at the same time that it has returned to a policy of cult of the leader much stronger than that of its predecessors. Now Xi hopes to make China a “modern socialist country in all respects,” as the resolution emphasizes.
The plenary also affirms that China has to “improve its ability to respond to risks and challenges.” The text underlines the commitment to “advance in scientific and technological self-sufficiency”, achieve “common prosperity” and “high quality development” and achieve the rejuvenation of the country.
China must “assert itself” both inside and outside
Among the challenges to be carried out by the country, the Central Committee points out that a “strong” country is necessary to “assert itself”, in which the People’s Liberation Army (EPL) should play a primary role. To do this, they say, the PLA has already taken “measures” to “safeguard” Chinese sovereignty “with an indomitable fighting spirit.”
In recent times, China claims to have suffered attacks on its economy and technology by the United States through sanctions to slow its development and has had clashes on the mountainous border with India with some skirmishes between the armies of both, in addition to continuing his historic struggle for control of Taiwan, which he considers a separatist province that sooner or later will return to the control of Beijing.
In the last virtual summit of executive directors of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Forum, the Chinese president stated in this regard that “the Asia-Pacific region cannot and must not return to the state of confrontation and division of the Cold War “, a gesture that suggests a reduction in tension with the US, after Washington assured that it would defend Taiwan in a possible Chinese attack.
Domestically, Beijing has faced large protests in the autonomous city of Hong Kong, which accused Bejing of restricting their freedoms and de facto breaking the pact of one country, two systems, through the new security law. . The protests were violently suppressed by Beijing, which has imprisoned several Hong Kong leaders and activists and has almost completely limited opposition to the central government in the territory. Last October Amnesty International closed its headquarters in the city.
NGOs such as Amnesty International itself and human rights activists also accuse Beijing of committing crimes against humanity in Xinjiang province, inhabited mostly by a Muslim minority in the country, the Uyghurs.
With EFE and local media
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