Scrapping Term Limits Fits the ‘Dictator Forever’ Model | National Review
Both China and Russia end limits on arbitrary power. We should not follow suit. It took Xinhua, the official news agency of China, only 36 words to send a chill down the spines of millions of people, in China and elsewhere: an announcement that the Communist Party will toss away the nation’s 35-year-old limit that its president and vice president may serve only two terms. It almost certainly means that President Xi Jinping, 64, plans to remain in power for the rest of his life.