China’s president is set for a historic third term, but that’s the most certain thing about the coming year for the superpower.
People born Tigers under the Chinese zodiac are said to be ambitious, competitive, unpredictable and confident.after a year defined by its ability to weather the coronavirus pandemic, increasingly frayed relations with the Western world, and a man whose power seems to know no limits.
“Xi Jinping has quashed opposition to his status now as leader for life. He will rule for at least 10 more years until the 22nd Party Congress in 2032 when he will be 79 years of age. There is no question about that,” predicted Willy Lam, adjunct professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong’s Centre for China Studies.
They included an orderly transition in 2022 which would keep Xi at the helm. At the close of 2021, that outcome still looked the most likely. “With this resolution the party has elevated Mr Xi and ‘Xi Jinping Thought’ to a status that puts them beyond critique. Because both are now entrenched as objective historical truth, to criticise Mr Xi is to attack the party and even China itself,” former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd wrote inAn untouchable Xi is a problem for US President Joe Biden and his allies, particularly Scott Morrison.
Xi has also presided over social upheaval in 2021 with the adoption of a string of socially conservative policies
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