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| Topic | China to eliminate term limits for presidents, up internet censorship |
| SeabassDebeste 03/01/18 9:15:42 AM #1: | Among the 21 proposed amendments, the one with perhaps the deepest potential impact on the future of Chinese politics and society deals with paragraph 3 of article 79, which would eradicate the current limit of PRC presidents and vice-presidents to two five-year terms. This would effectively set President Xi Jinping up to maintain his seat as president indefinitely. Erosion of the succession rules and conventions introduced by Deng Xiaoping to prevent the chaos that followed Mao Zedongs consolidation of personal power has long been anticipated, and speculation along this line deepened last autumn when Xi failed to introduce a likely successor at the 19th Party Congress. Article contains a big list of terms they've found censored on Weibo (Chinese social media). Some of the obvious ones: Xi Zedong () long live the emperor () ascend the throne () 1984 Animal Farm () thousands of years () Winnie the Pooh () Images of Winnie the Pooh have been used to mock Xi Jinping since as early as 2013. The animated bear continues to be sensitive in China. Weibo users shared a post from Disneys official account that showed Pooh hugging a large pot of honey along with the caption find the thing you love and stick with it. personality cult () Brave New World () https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2018/02/sensitive-words-emperor-xi-jinping-ascend-throne/ --- yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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