And to tell us more about this, Professor Choo Jae-woo from Kyung Hee University joins
us in the studio today.
Good to be here.
1- So currently, China's constitution says the president and vice-president (QUOTE) "shall
serve no more than two consecutive terms."
2- Then why is China trying to remove the constitutional restriction on the maximum
number of terms the president and vice-president can serve?
3- Analysts have been saying that removing the two-term limit gives the strongest indication
yet... that Chinese President Xi Jinping will
stay in power almost indefinitely.
4- At last year's Communist Party Congress, Xi cemented his status as the most powerful
Chinese leader since Mao Zedong in the 1970s,... adding to the party constitution his name
and a political theory attributed
to him.
5- And the
congress is all but certain to pass the constitutional amendment when it meets for its annual session
on Monday,... during which it will also grant Xi a second five-year term and appoint new
ministers and other government officials.
6- There's mixed reaction over this and some are even saying that scrapping constitutional
limit on serving more than two consecutive terms as president could affect the country's
economy as well.
What can we expect on this front?
7- How would
China's
constitutional change
affect the U.S,.... especially as
trade tensions have been intensifying between the U.S. and
China recently?
8- Meanwhile, experts say that Xi's concentration of power represents a growing threat to *Taiwan's
efforts to maintain de facto independence,...
AND to the embattled democracy movement in the semi-autonomous region of Hong Kong.
Tell us more about this.
9- So all eyes are on where politics in China will be heading as Xi Jinping is likely to
make China much more aggressive on the world stage.
What impact would such changes have on China as well as other countries around
the world?
10- How would all these potential changes within China affect the
Korean
economy
and national security?
Thank you
for your insight today professor.
Thank you.