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South Korea's President Yoon Suk-yeol meets with Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the G20 leaders' summit in Bali, Indonesia. November 15, 2022. Credit: UPI via Alamy
In October, the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of China endorsed another five-year term for President Xi Jinping, effectively ending the practice of limiting the presidency to two terms. It was thus also an unmistakable break with the tradition of collective leadership established in the late 1970s, after the end of Mao Zedong’s one-man rule.
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