RLK: First of all, we have to understand it in context. via Skype There are twenty-one different clauses in this wes | Beijing | Constitutional Amendment, and the whole point of it is to le en a is ee Am ty oe ? « FARKAS TOMEBARI RASH AS strengthen the governance system of China. Now China is a [os : 3. =e party-state system where the party controls the state. f ! « cc -) si : she Everyone is focusing on the abolition of term limits, and it I | | : Ney] i is important, but we need to understand the context within ct if if . y | i 7 b this party-state system. In October of 2016, Xi Jinping was E= “fog oe ee eee | made “Core” of the Party, which meant the collective Seacrest ye leadership of the past was no longer operative; that X was, ae Sy in essence, for the Party, the decision maker. Then just this Sega ee Wages eepisase Seer 5 last October at the 19th CPC National Congress, his name i ee i RS ea oe was put into the Party Constitution as “Xi Jinping Thought iL) La Shad LA) E/ A, EA Se OE LS Te es ‘ on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New PARLIAMENT VOTES TO END PRESIDENTIAL TERM LIMITS TON Era,”... it’s a big phrase. Robert Lawrence Kuhn | Author, "How China's Leaders Think" 633 amour CNN NEWSROOM RLK: But what it means is that Xi is the arbiter of Marxism be a and party theory. That means in terms of being the Core ot — ys : or the Party and the interpreter of Marxism that gives him - = SCC EARRAES TI MSBARRRASS—K: ‘can a ultimate power. He doesn’t even need a formal position when . SB. a has those two and the Party continues to run the country. ? 5 gt ye di - HOST: Is that a good thing? How can it be a good thing for . o . ies! Pe ee Ss \ ty f the country when one person has the ultimate power? €) af pe am ‘ EF Sy Te Wee ea a ee RLK: There are two issues. One is how it happened: Now F = Bz alae Asana cea Wises. eee the abolition of presidential term limits coordinates with the oP wil tiene A Save et 3 Party and military, together the three largest p