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The Xinhua news agency has just issued a long, unprecedented statement about directions from the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee to the National People’s Congress regarding revisions to China’s national constitution.
The People’s Congress is now required to propose these revisions at its annual meeting next month.
If there was any doubt that China’s national legislature is anything but a toothless rubber stamp for the secretive machinations of the Communist Politburo, there isn’t anymore.
Hidden well inside the turgid text, at the end of Section 14, is the removal of a phrase limiting China’s president and vice-president to
