<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi_Jinping" id="mwAXw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Xi Jinping">Xi Jinping</a> is elected as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Secretary_of_the_Chinese_Communist_Party" id="mwAX0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party">General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party</a> by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Committee_of_the_Chinese_Communist_Party" id="mwAX4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party">Central Committee</a>, beginning a third term of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramount_leader" id="mwAX8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Paramount leader">paramount leader</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China" id="mwAYA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="China">China</a>.<sup about="#mwt93" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-17"}}' id="cite_ref-17" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./October_23#cite_note-17" id="mwAYE" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 17;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAYI">[17]</span></a></sup>
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