Xi Jin Ping China's President Moves to Remove Two Term Limit for Presidency

This would allow him to be president for the rest of his life. Now contrary to what many western people think they know about Chinese politics is that they are democratic, it's just that not everyone can vote. To be able to vote you must be a party member, there are over 90,000,000 party members in China. Party members guide the country from the grassroots level all they way up to the top, most are farmers. This means he could still technically be voted out at some point.

The likelihood of getting voted out is extremely slim. As anyone who does not side with him throughout his leadership could be labelled corrupt and removed political office. So once you're president in China without a mandatory limit on your presidency it's reasonable to assume the leader could be in power for a very long time.

I do not oppose endless leadership so long as the leader is continuously and legitimately voted in. As long as the will of the people want someone to be their leader that person should not have any limitations on the number of years they can do their job. I get that there are many reasons to enforce such a rule. Like in America it is also two terms but a term is only 4 years maximum rather 5 years in China. The problem I have with the American system is it only caters to two parties while claiming to the world they have many; the Republicans and Democrats, the others are called independent and they never do well.

So far from a Chinese perspective Xi Jin Ping has been doing a pretty good job. Most can't complain on his policies or how Chinese citizens feel better off now than they did before. Not only are people thriving Xi also has made huge improvements in environment protection and air pollution in many cities. He is making trade deals with with pretty much anyone and giving poor countries loans so big with no deadline to be paid back to gain votes in the United Nations, he only continued that habit from his predecessor.

I do hope they stick to the two term policy given that not all citizens get to vote. I think that should be a stipulation that all Chinese citizens and Canadians living in China get to vote. Otherwise keep things the way they are. Things are going pretty good for everyone here, generally speaking.

What do you think?

Regardless of how they are doing they are doing while keeping the country unified and more people are becoming home owners then ever before.