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There are no obvious candidates to succeed Xi Jinping when he completes his second term as general secretary of the Chinese communist party in 2022.The Central Committee of the Chinese communist party convened for the first time on 25 October to elect the new Politburo and the Politburo Standing Committee (PSC). Unsurprisingly, Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang were both re-elected as members of the PSC, and Xi was reappointed general secretary of the Party. The other five seats went to new faces to...

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