China: Xi Jinping looks to secure another term as Communist party meet begins

Cutting through CPC slang and clutter, at the end of the four- day meeting on Thursday, Xi is anticipated to crop as a leader at par with Mao and Deng. 

 A peak of the Communist Party of China (CPC) elite opened behind unrestricted doors in Beijing on Monday as President Xi Jinping looks to secure both his heritage and future as China’s leader for a third term in 2022. 

 The detailed docket of the four- day meeting is secret but what’s known is that on Monday Xi delivered a work report on behalf of CPC Central Committee’s important Politburo and explained a “ … draft resolution on the major achievements and literal experience of the CPC’s 100 times of endeavours”. 

Interestingly, at a analogous plenum in 2016, a time ahead of the formerly- by-five- time CPC congress, the party had besmeared Xi Jinping as the “ core” putting him at par with Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping, two of Communist China’s iconic leaders. 

 “ Chinese people who had suffered subjection and bullying since the arrival of ultramodern times had stood up. The Chinese nation is advancing toward modernisation on all fronts and illiberalism has blazed a successful trail in the world’s most vibrant country,” an October statement by politburo had said, giving environment to the ongoing meeting. 

The resolution- only the third similar document in CPC’s history– document is set to look back at crucial events in the party’s 100- time history, “ … support concinnity among the party and strengthen the authority and leadership of the CPC central commission with Xi at its core, as well as determine the party’s direction for the coming many decades”, Chinese political judges told sanctioned media. 

 Cutting through CPC slang and clutter, at the end of the four- day meeting on Thursday, Xi is anticipated to crop as a leader at par with Mao and Deng. 

“ At the 6th plenum, opening moment in Beijing, the Chinese Communist Party will pass its third resolution on history. But all of the verbiage in the important document to be released this week will boil down to a simple political fact XI Jinping will lead the party for times to come,” David Bandurski, editor at the University of Hong Kong’s China Media Project wrote. 

 “ The “ resolution” will be unveiled in full to the world, so that we can all pick apart its finer points- further, that is, Xi Jinping’s blunt claim to power,” Bandurski wrote.