By Sue-Lin Wong from the Economist:

Xi had once been expected to hand over power at this year’s party congress in Beijing. Instead, the 2,300 members of the Communist Party present – and all of China – will be required to applaud Xi as he embarks on a third term of office, unprecedented since Mao. The boy who once withstood humiliation and starvation at the hands of his peers will show that no one, now, can defy him.

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