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by ourmandave 2499 days ago
Assuming the Chinese economy can hold up, Xi Jinping doesn't have an election coming up in 2020.
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To everybody raising this question I answer this: "A dictator faces election every time he shows his back to anybody."

And being a head of a giant country, the man just can't avoid doing that from time to time, unlike the head of some tiny banana republic.