Beijing

Anger at “naysayers”: China’s state-run media has insisted that the scrapping of presidential term limits does not “imply lifetime tenure for any leader” – and hit out at the “shameless” and malicious “naysayers” in the Western media who fear the move presages the development of a Mao-style cult around President Xi. On Sunday, China’s rubber-stamp parliament, the National People’s Congress, voted by 2,958 votes to two to lift the two-term limit. Three delegates

abstained.