China talks up Xi move

CHINA’S propaganda machine kicked into overdrive on Tuesday to defend the Communist Party’s move to scrap term limits for President Xi Jinping. The ruling means that he can stay as president beyond 2023.

State media defended the amendment in editorials that lavished praise on the communist party leadership.

The English-language China Daily said the lifting of the presidential term limit “has been necessitated by the need to perfect the Party and the State leadership system”.