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CHINA: XI UNVEILS NEW LEADERS WITHOUT A SUBSTANTIAL SUCCESSOR



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Chinese President Xi Jinping waves while addressing the media as he introduced new members of the Politburo Standing Committee at Beijing's Great Hall of the People Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2017. The seven-member Standing Committee, the inner circle of Chinese political power, was paraded in front of assembled media on the first day following the end of the 19th Communist Party Congress. (AP Pho
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China's ruling Communist Party on Wednesday elevated five new officials to assist President Xi Jinping as he embarks on a second five-year term, and by stopping short of designating an obvious successor strengthened his position as the country's most powerful leader in decades.
As expected, Xi was given a renewed mandate following the first meeting Wednesday of the new Central Committee that was elected at the party's twice-a-decade national congress.
"We will mobilize the whole party and the whole country in a resolute push to deliver on our pledge and eradicate poverty in China," Xi, China's president, said in comments to reporters at a brief ceremony at the Great Hall of the People.
The new leaders will face challenges that include reining burgeoning levels of debt, managing trade tensions with the U.S. and Europe, preventing war over North Korea's nuclear program and navigating ties with Southeast Asian nations wary of Beijing's influence.
Five members of the new seven-strong Politburo Standing Committee introduced by Xi were newly appointed Wednesday. Going by the party's norms on retirement ages, none of them are deemed suitable to succeed the 64-year-old Xi as party leader after his second five-year term.
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