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The Man Who Would Be Emperor

By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS     There was nothing subtle about Chinese President Xi Jinping’s unabashed power grab over the weekend. Even before entering his second five-year term in office – which begins in March and which was supposed to be his last, according to term limits imposed in 1982 to avoid potential presidencies-for-life – the country’s ruling Communist Party‘s Central Committee proposed new regulations

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