Name: China allows Xi Jinping to be ‘president for life’
Uploaded: 2018-03-11T18:34:08+00:00
Duration: 2 min 40 s
Description: China's parliament has rubber stamped an unprecedented move allowing President Xi Jinping to rule indefinitely. The constitutional change tears down a system put in place to avoid any return to a Mao style autocratic dictatorship - and the authorities have already moved to suppress any signs of public dissent.

China’s parliament has rubber stamped an unprecedented move allowing President Xi Jinping to rule indefinitely. The constitutional change tears down a system put in place to avoid any return to a Mao style autocratic dictatorship – and the authorities have already moved to suppress any signs of public dissent. Tom Clarke reports.