Xi Jinping's Opponents Challenge Bid For 3rd Term In Office

Does China even do elections and voting? or is it just the faux election where all the candidates are from the CCP?

Hell I don't even know a good source to read about China and the importance of this election, from China, India, or anywhere else

There are rumors he has upset some higher ups with his COVID restrictions, and it hurt international businesses. Easily in my industry 90% of the goods were supplied by China previously. Already other countries and even a few domestic companies are moving in on the vacuum

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Xi Jinping's Opponents Challenge Bid For 3rd Term In Office

President Xi Jinping is eyeing to secure a third term in office, his political opponents are challenging this bid of the President at a time when his much-criticized strict "Zero-COVID" policies have brought the entire nation to the brink of economic collapse.
Xi obviously faced an ever-increasing attack from his opponents and this is evident in a recent post published by Cai Xia, a retired professor at the Party School of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.

In his post, he referred to a regulation entitled "Interim Provisions on the Term of Office of Leading Party and Government Cadres". According to a post by him on Twitter, he said that this provision is still in effect.

It is interesting to note that this interim provision supposedly could challenge Xi's ability to remain at the head of the CCP in the next term, reported Global Strait.

As per this provision, the tenure of the CCP party and the Chinese government leading cadres is limited. They can only serve in the same position for two consecutive terms or a total of 15 years.

After this post by Cai, a Taiwanese media outlet published an article on this provision. In June 5 article, the interim provision could hinder Xi's wish to extend his Party leadership.

The article talks about how Xi, since 2017, had been meeting various substantive obstacles to his re-election. According to former diplomat and author Roger Garside, the Chinese president Xi's opponents are also taking advantage of the country's internal troubles to undermine him.

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Discontent in CCP threatens Xi's march
Two directives issued recently confirm that discontent among party members and cadres is causing anxiety in the CCP’s top echelons. On May 16, an article authored by the CCP Central Committee’s Organisation Department listed 10 points for the younger cadres to ‘better’ themselves. This dissatisfaction has also permeated the ranks of the millions of retired CCP men and heightened Xi’s anxiety.

It isn't an election in the normal sense. It would be more analogous to congress voting for the president and if you didn't pick the pre-approved "right one", you would be ostracized or worse. In a nutshell, it's rigged.

That said, there have been two main factions that openly pretend to play nice, but deliberately undermine each other. Xi has definitely gone all in on 'zero covid' because he couldn't save face in his opinion if he backtracks. There are for sure those that want him gone. He will drag them into financial ruin rather than backtrack. He can always rebuild, but he cannot lose power (in his eyes).

There have been some very interesting maneuvers lately that point to quite a bit of infighting. Things like removing him (editing him out) from televised events, removing his book from book stores ect. The national party congress this year will not be a shoe-in for him like it was predicted, I think.

If I had to speculate who might be on their radar as an alternate, it would be premier Li KeQiang. On paper, and from the things he has said openly, he seems a bit more sensible, but that really means nothing.

a reply to: putnam6

Interesting, but a bit confusing.

In 2018 China voted to remove the two term limit for president. Info here.

But it seems that while it's possible to be President for more than two terms you can't be a CCP "parliamentary" member for more than 2 years? am I reading that right?

Hopefully none of this ends well, it'd be nice to see the CCP tear itself to pieces.

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Sure... I don't think some people understand what President For Life means.

What Xi Jinping as president for life means for China and the world

In his most conspicuous manifestation of power, in 2018, China’s National Congress voted to amend the Chinese constitution by abolishing the two-term limits on the Presidency. Xi has also thus far failed to nominate a successor, which previous leaders typically do at the start of their second term. Xi looks increasingly likely to win a third term during the 2022 Chinese elections and could potentially retain power for the rest of his life.

He can't lose when he doesn't allow himself to lose.

originally posted by: infolurker
a reply to: putnam6

Sure... I don't think some people understand what President For Life means.

What Xi Jinping as president for life means for China and the world

In his most conspicuous manifestation of power, in 2018, China’s National Congress voted to amend the Chinese constitution by abolishing the two-term limits on the Presidency. Xi has also thus far failed to nominate a successor, which previous leaders typically do at the start of their second term. Xi looks increasingly likely to win a third term during the 2022 Chinese elections and could potentially retain power for the rest of his life.

He can't lose when he doesn't allow himself to lose.

It is a dictatorship. It already is in my opinion but that would only make it official.

a reply to: infolurker

He can't lose when he doesn't allow himself to lose.

Sounds familiar.

Russian President Vladimir Putin revealed his tightly guarded political plans Tuesday and supported a constitutional amendment that would allow him to seek reelection in 2024 by restarting the term count.

The constitutional change would pave the way for the 67-year-old Putin to stay in office until 2036, if he desires.

A lawmaker who is revered in Russia as the first woman to fly in space proposed either scrapping Russia's two-term limit for presidents or stopping the clock so the law wouldn't apply to Putin's time in office.

The Russian leader and the lower house of parliament quickly endorsed the proposal put forward by 83-year-old former Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova. Kremlin critics denounced the move as cynical manipulation and called for protests.
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Although recent events may see that ambition thwarted.

The reality is that the CCP as an institution is quite fragile today. And what I mean by that is the people are not behind it. Even the cadres do no "believe" in it. There was a time when the people stood up and wholeheartedly took their oath to defend and support it. That is not the case today.

With the internet and the ability to quickly disseminate information, the ordinary people and even those in the government have seen or at least heard the truth about Tiananmen Square, persecution of the Uighurs, organ harvesting of live Falun Gong practitioners and they chatter amongst themselves about local persecution of Christians, land grabs, inhumane brutal covid lockdowns etc. The people at all levels no longer look at the CCP as their savior and problem solver, but they do not know what to do.

Many have renounced their oath (about 400 million) that they took to the CCP or to the Young Pioneers (a CCP youth org) global.tuidang.org... and posted it on this site. This is a grass-roots movement within China and even cadres at high levels have done this. Others have scuttled money away in foreign countries and investments to try and protect themselves it if collapses, etc. I think sometimes people mentally associate this as some kind of economic collapse, but they are not necessarily tied. The economy could keep on steady but the way things are handled is suddenly very different.

On the issue of CCP collapse, who is to say how that might come about, but it will. I think people get caught up in what "collapse" means though. Governments many times in history transition and it is not usually what people imagine. When nobody at any level respects or believes in it, it will collapse, but it might look on the surface to just be similar, but all of the underlying garbage just quickly transitions to something unrecognizable to before and suddenly statues and pictures are destroyed and painted over. Look at how quickly the Soviet collapse and change happened.

I think the other misconception is that it will or should become a democracy. It may or may not, but they will figure that out and will likely incorporate rejecting a lot of what was before. It could be a different form of bad, or something quite different and good, but it will no longer be the CCP.

Interesting times.

Falun Dafa Hao!

originally posted by: Halfswede
The reality is that the CCP as an institution is quite fragile today. And what I mean by that is the people are not behind it. Even the cadres do no "believe" in it. There was a time when the people stood up and wholeheartedly took their oath to defend and support it. That is not the case today.

With the internet and the ability to quickly disseminate information, the ordinary people and even those in the government have seen or at least heard the truth about Tiananmen Square, persecution of the Uighurs, organ harvesting of live Falun Gong practitioners and they chatter amongst themselves about local persecution of Christians, land grabs, inhumane brutal covid lockdowns etc. The people at all levels no longer look at the CCP as their savior and problem solver, but they do not know what to do.

Many have renounced their oath (about 400 million) that they took to the CCP or to the Young Pioneers (a CCP youth org) global.tuidang.org... and posted it on this site. This is a grass-roots movement within China and even cadres at high levels have done this. Others have scuttled money away in foreign countries and investments to try and protect themselves it if collapses, etc. I think sometimes people mentally associate this as some kind of economic collapse, but they are not necessarily tied. The economy could keep on steady but the way things are handled is suddenly very different.

On the issue of CCP collapse, who is to say how that might come about, but it will. I think people get caught up in what "collapse" means though. Governments many times in history transition and it is not usually what people imagine. When nobody at any level respects or believes in it, it will collapse, but it might look on the surface to just be similar, but all of the underlying garbage just quickly transitions to something unrecognizable to before and suddenly statues and pictures are destroyed and painted over. Look at how quickly the Soviet collapse and change happened.

I think the other misconception is that it will or should become a democracy. It may or may not, but they will figure that out and will likely incorporate rejecting a lot of what was before. It could be a different form of bad, or something quite different and good, but it will no longer be the CCP.

Interesting times.

Falun Dafa Hao!

Thanks for the post.

All that concerns me is the security of the nuclear weapons and hoping if there is a transition it's relatively peaceful, and quick.