The President was also limited, but changed the constitution.
"China's Xi allowed to remain 'president for life' as term limits removed"
China's Xi Jinping could stay in power indefinitely after parliament backs constitutional changes.
www.bbc.co.uk
Your excuses are very unconvincing.
"The constitution has been altered to allow Xi Jinping to remain as president beyond two terms and they would not have gone to this much trouble if that was not exactly what he intended to do.
There has been no national debate as to whether a leader should be allowed to stay on for as long as they choose. Quietly but surely Xi Jinping has changed the way his country is governed, with himself well and truly at the core."
Firstly they aren't my excuses, and I reject the implication. I have no need nor desire to make 'excuses'. My comments are my analysis of the situation and the western led conspiracy ideas, instead of being lead by that western propganda.
Western porpaganda is as active or more so than any other region's propaganda. But like unconcsious bias we tend not to be aware of it.
Secondly, your analysis of the change in the Chinese constitution is also a western led view of the event. Look at that squirrel over there.
UK does not even have a constitution to restrict the terms of UK PMs, nor royalty, nor Lords. The UK Parliament is sovereign and can pass any laws it likes. If it wanted to suspend elections it could do. As it did during WW2 for ten years.
Indeed the BBC coverage and UK propganda machine was active in 2018, when the Brexit arguments were really heating up, and Parliament was illegally prorogued in 2019, by the third PM in as many years. Such was the parlous state of the UK political scene. (we're now onto our fifth PM in eight years.)
Thirdly, it isn't unusual for a country to amend its constitution, and in the case of China there were valid reasons for it. Rather than me explain it here, I suggest you read a non-western version. (East Asian, not Chinese)
Here is a very brief summary:
China’s ruler has three major titles: head of the Chinese Communist Party, head of the Central Military Commission and president of the People’s Republic of China. In other words, the ruler of China rules the Party, the military and the nation...
For the first decade or so, the presidency was not held by the actual ruler of China...
The presidency changed as China’s international commitments grew. It became an office that allowed the ruler to meet heads of state as equals...
So the presidency only became effectively rolled in together with the head of the Party and the head of the military as the titles belonging to China’s ruler in 1993....
What does the removal of term limits from the Chinese presidency mean for the future of Chinese politics?
www.eastasiaforum.org
So the president's term was time limited, but the head of the Miltary, and the head of the Party were not time limited.
So once Xi Jimping's presidential terms had expired, any meeting of other international leaders would refer back to the rather silly position of China having three heads of state. The heads of the military and the party being the real power, and the President being basically a ceremonial role.
As the role of President is only ceremonial, the change in the constitution does not have the impact that western propaganda would like you to believe.
But the role does now mirror that of most western states, only some have time limits on the leadership of the country (but not UK, Australia, Canada, etc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_term_limits ). the leader of the country also being the head of the military and the head of the party.
And, no, before you start making accusations of me being a Xi Jimping supporter, as is the usual conclusion arrived at by many on here, (if you're not this, then you must be that
), let me declare categorically that I'm not a Xi Jimping supporter. I have no need nor desire to make excuses. But I am able to make an informed analysis of the situation, rather than be led by western propaganda and conspiracies.
Because I'm not a Catholic it does not make me a Christian, nor a Muslim, nor a Jew, nor a Mormon, etc, etc.
