Xi Jinping abandoned Deng Xiaoping's two-term succession norms because he recognized the existential threat from decentralized provincial power that had become too autonomous, requiring recentralization that could not be accomplished within a single 10-year term
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“it was about surviving or being able to re-energize and recentralize the entire party when he came into power in 2012”
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