Xi Jinping has officially been installed as China’s president for an unprecedented third term. This is what he has planned

Sitting in the middle of the stage — poker face on — China’s paramount leader Xi Jinping didn’t have to say anything at the opening day of the national Congress to firmly stamp his mark on it. Instead — like every year — Mr Xi’s nominal deputy, the state Premier Li Keqiang delivered the work report. He put a positive spin on a difficult 12 months and outlined how China would bounce back from a damaging prolonged COVID-zero crusade. But even as he spoke for one final time as Premier of the government, Li had already been replaced in his…