Carl Minzner was quoted in a Daily Times article about the current political landscape in China. China’s Communist Party recently announced that it intends to abolish term limits on the presidency, which will help President Xi Jinping stay in power indefinitely.
Legal Experts say that Xi is codifying previously informal restrictions, or campaigns like the anti-corruption drive in a bid to enforce central control.
“What Xi strives to perform is to centralize power in order to exert that power over China’s unruly bureaucracy,” said Carl Minzer, a Chinese law expert at Fordham Law School in New York.