The objective of an eventual third term of Xi Jinping will be to place China in the prominence of international relations, explained Alexandre Uehara, coordinator of the Asian Studies and Business Center and professor at the International Relations Course at ESPM.
Uehara explains that the new resolution of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) brings enormous prominence to Xi and paves the way for him to remain in charge of the country.
According to the professor, the strength of the Chinese leader within the CCP was evidenced in the resolution marking the party’s 100th anniversary.
“We realized that the leadership situation he has is very strong in the Chinese party right now,” the researcher said in an interview with CNN.
“Xi Jinping has very important leadership and this makes him have achieved all the latest changes in China, in particular, in the Chinese party itself, which allowed him the third term.”
Uehara emphasizes that it is necessary to see in the medium and long term how this influence of Xi Jinping will reflect in the Asian country.
“We will see what results will come from now on and if, in fact, the policies he has been implementing will lead China to a place of ‘Chinese dream’, as he put it, in other words, of China in international relations in greater protagonism. This is the objective he has set.”
A third term of Xi Jinping – general secretary of the CCP since 2012 and president of China since 2013 – is unprecedented in the country’s history.
This week, the party passed a resolution on its history and achievements spanning 100 years, but it was seen as a way to further consolidate the authority of the Chinese president.
The document describes Xi as responsible for the deepening restructuring of China’s political and economic systems, which began in the 1970s, and equates the current president’s name with that of figures such as Mao Tse-Tung and Deng Xiaoping, the two biggest leaders of the party since its foundation in 1921 — reinforcing the possibility of his remaining in power.
(With information from Raphael Coraccini and Murillo Ferrari, from CNN, in São Paulo; Produced by Layane Serrano)
(Published by Sinara Peixoto)
Reference: CNN Brasil
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