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Presidents for life? A conversation about Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin

JK: Xi truly believes in the Chinese Communist Party, and, like Putin, appears to believe liberal democracy has no place in his country's political life. He has overseen China's worst tightening of public expression since the early 1990s, with crackdowns on human rights lawyers, journalists, universities, religion, the internet, virtually all potential bastions of free thought. Most prominent Chinese dissidents are in jail, or exile, or under crushing surveillance. The term limit's abolition "signals the likelihood of another long period of severe repression," Jerome Cohen, a professor at New York University and expert in Chinese law, wrote in a blog post.

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