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China Expected to Grant Xi 5 More Years, No Major Changes

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping presides over a preparatory meeting ahead of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Saturday, Oct. 15, 2022. AP
In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping presides over a preparatory meeting ahead of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Saturday, Oct. 15, 2022. AP

China on Sunday opens a twice-a-decade party conference at which leader Xi Jinping is expected to receive a third five-year term that breaks with recent precedent and establishes himself as arguably the most powerful Chinese politician since Mao Zedong.

Xi is expected to issue a lengthy address at the opening session, but little change is foreseen in his formula of strict one-party rule, intolerance of criticism and a hard-line approach toward COVID-19 including quarantines and travel bans even as other countries have opened up.

As with most Chinese political events, little information has been released beforehand and the congress’ outcome will only be announced after several days of closed-door sessions. How much has been decided in advance and how much is still to be hashed out in face-to-face meetings also remains unknown.

At a two-hour news conference Saturday, the congress’ spokesperson Sun Yeli reaffirmed the government’s commitment to its “zero-COVID” policy despite the economic costs, and repeated its threat to use force to annex self-governing Taiwan.

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