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		</div><p>China’s leader Xi Jinping appears to be laying the foundation for a third term in power as top officials of the all-powerful Communist Party meet this week in Beijing.</p>
<p>The official Xinhua News Agency said president and party general secretary Xi issued a draft resolution on the party’s “major achievements and historical experience” at the Central Committee’s plenary session that opened on Monday.</p>
<p>Scholars say that will mark the party’s third major statement on its 100-year history, shoring up Mr Xi’s status as an equal to founder of the Chinese People’s Republic Mao Zedong and his successor Deng Xiaoping, who oversaw crucial economic reforms.</p>
<p>China removed term limits on the presidency in 2018, potentially keeping Mr Xi at the apex of power for the rest of his life.</p>
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<p>He is expected to be reappointed party leader through a highly opaque process at next year’s full party congress, an event held every five years.</p>
<p>This week’s meeting of the roughly 200 members of the Central Committee is due to last through Thursday, with a communique to be issued following the final session.</p>
<p>Mr Xi has already revealed his thinking through his public pronouncements and the statement on party history is not expected to produce any surprises, said Yang Yang, a professor at the School of Political Science and Public Administration under the China University of Political Science and Law.</p>
<p>The document will essentially summarise China’s emergence from foreign domination, its economic climb and emergence as a world power, Prof Yang said.</p>
<p>“It will emphasise a new era for the governance of the Communist Party under Xi’s leadership and that will lay a foundation for Xi to match Mao and Deng and lay a foundation for Xi to continue to govern for the next term,” the professor said.</p>
<p>The party issued two previous evaluations of its history: in 1945, as it was moving toward seizing power four years later from Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists, and in 1981 as Deng led an assessment of Mao’s tumultuous 1966-76 Cultural Revolution.</p>
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<p>In both cases, the party sought to smooth over schisms and restore unity within its ranks.</p>
<p>A decade after taking over the leadership, Mr Xi faces no apparent rivals within the party and has consolidated power by overseeing a stable economy, an assertive foreign policy, a major upgrading of the military and an ongoing crackdown on corruption that has ensnared both serving and retired high-level officials.</p>
<p>At the same time, religious groups and human rights activists have been harshly repressed, with more than a million members of Muslim minority groups subjected to mass detentions and political indoctrination.</p>
<p>Free speech and opposition politics have also been severely curtailed in the semi-autonomous southern city of Hong Kong and military threats stepped up against self-governing Taiwan.</p>
<p>China says the measures are necessary to safeguard stability and national sovereignty.</p>
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