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What will happen at China's 20th Party Congress: Xi's historic third term and changes to his inner circle

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Will Xi Jinping Identify a Successor?

The consensus is this time we are very unlikely to see any indication of successor per se. The main issue is we are not sure whether Xi will just stop at the third term or he's still looking at the fourth term. So if you assume that he is going for a fourth term, there would be a very low possibility that he will identify his successor now. But having said it now it's a bit too early but we should look at those people who are born after 1965 or even 1968.

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