China's Xi Jinping gets expanded mandate, may rule for life

Monday, March 12, 2018

BEIJING -- Xi Jinping, already China's most powerful leader in more than a generation, received a vastly expanded mandate as lawmakers Sunday abolished presidential term limits that had been in place for more than 35 years and wrote his political philosophy into the country's constitution.

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