China’s President Xi Jinping (front) walks with members of the Chinese Communist Party’s new Politburo Standing Committee, the nation’s top decision-making body, as they meet the media in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Oct. 23, 2022. (WANG ZHAO/AFP via Getty Images)
Chinese leader Xi Jinping will remain in power for five more years, extending his 10-year reign over the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) until at least 2028.
Xi, 69, will be the general secretary of the CCP for an unprecedented third term, breaking a two-term norm set by his predecessors.
The Chinese regime unveiled its new leadership on Oct. 23, naming Xi and six other party officials to the Politburo Standing Committee, the communist regime’s highest decision-making body.
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