China Communist Party proposes constitutional amendment to extend presidential term News
China Communist Party proposes constitutional amendment to extend presidential term

The Communist Party of China (CCP) [party website] Central Committee on Sunday announced [Xinhua report] plans to abolish the presidential term limits, which would permit President Xi Jinping to stay in office indefinitely.

The CCP proposed removing Article 79 from China’s constitution [text], which states “[t]he term of office of the President and Vice-President of the People’s Republic of China … shall serve no more than two consecutive terms.” The CCP also proposed inserting Xi’s official ideological framework entitled “Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era” [text] into the constitution, which has already been adopted in the CPC Constitution [text].

The proposal will be considered by the National People’s Congress [official website] in March.

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UN General Assembly approves Palestine partition plan

The UN General Assembly approved UN Resolution Resolution 181 (II) on November 29, 1947, recommending that the British Mandate for Palestine be split into a Jewish state, an Arab state, and an international zone for Jerusalem. The vote in the assembly was 33 for to 13 against, with 10 abstentions. The resolution sparked a war between Palestinian Arabs and Jews in 1947 and a wider war after Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, and Lebanon invaded the new State of Israel in 1948. Read Resolution 181 (II).

UN divided Palestine between Arabs and Jews

On November 29, 1947, the UN General Assembly voted to partition Palestine into Jewish and Arab territories, leading to the establishment of a Jewish state the following year. Read UN General Assembly Resolution 181.

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