Xi Jinping cleared to rule for life as China abolishes term limits

Xi Jinping has cleared the way to rule for life and set China on a more authoritarian course after the country's rubber stamp parliament voted overwhelmingly to abolish presidential term limits on Sunday. The move turns the clock back on decades of reform and reverses a system of ‘collective leadership’ that was installed following the turmoil of Mao Tse-tung’s one-man rule. Almost 3,000 delegates of China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) backed the measure during