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25/02/2018 GMT

China Moves To Let President Extend Rule

BBC World Service - Newshour, China Moves To Let President Extend Rule

Constitutional changes will scrap two-term limit to allow Xi Jinping to remain in power

Constitutional changes will scrap two-term limit to allow Xi Jinping to remain in power.

China's ruling Communist Party has moved to allow the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, to stay in power indefinitely. The proposal, which will almost certainly be accepted by China's rubber-stamp parliament, would remove the current two-term limits for the country's president and vice president.

Also in the programme: Protests in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the problems longevity is causing in Japan.

(Photo: Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, January 2018. Credit: Getty Images)

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