2018. Xi Jinping changes the Chinese Constitution to remain president for life

In March 2018, in the Palace of the People's Assembly, Beijing, Xi Jinping pledged allegiance to the Constitution that he had amended in order to be able to be president for life.JU PENG/XINHUA VIA AFP Read later Google News Share Facebook Twitter E-mail Copy link Send Offer this item Subscribing allows you to offer articles to your loved ones. And not only that: you can consult and comment on them. Reading time:2min. Subscribe Series Xi Jinping, in power since 2013, has not only imposed a new totalocracy in his country. It also displays its ambitions for global hegemony. To go further In 1968, Xi Jinping was 15 years old. Like thousands of his comrades, he was sent by Mao to the countryside to be educated. In the village where he lands, Liangjiahe, in the northwest of the country, there is nothing. Xi must live, like the others, in a troglodyte house without heating and infested with fleas. At the end of his strength, the teenager ends up running away. One rainy evening, he arrived at his mother's house in Beijing, skin and bones. But she refuses to let him in. Worse, she reports him to the police. Xi is thrown in prison, like his father, victim of a party purge. He was then sent back to Liangjiahe, where he spent seven years. As an adult, Xi says those years made him a man: Oh my God, I will always be a son of the yellow earthhe repeats. Twenty-six years later, he has turned the soil of his childhood wounds into a grandiose story. To sublimate the humiliation of his father deposed by Mao, he becomes the Grand Helmsman 2.0, an omnipresent, omnipotent character, who keeps his country and his subjects on a leash while all Sources 1/ https://Google.com/ 2/ https://www.nouvelobs.com/histoire/20250103.OBS98591/2018-xi-jinping-change-la-constitution-chinoise-pour-rester-president-a-vie.html The mention sources can contact us to remove/changing this article