News Snapshot:
Xi Jinping, China’s most ambitious leader in decades, is to be given a rare third term and crowned “people’s leader” by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) this autumn, a Hong Kong newspaper reported this week. Not since Mao Zedong and his successor, Hua Guofeng, has a CCP figurehead been given the official title of “leader,” Ming Pao said on Tuesday. The former, a founder of the CCP and architecture of the People’s Republic of China, was known as the “great leader” and “great mentor,” while the latter—Mao’s chosen heir—was the party’s “wise leader.” Xi will be crowned renmin lingxiu (people’s...
