President Xi Jinping, China, Term Limits Robert Lawrence Kuhn — Minxin Pel
March 5, 2018
HOST: When it comes to trade, one country more than any other has been the target of Trump’s rhetorical wrath, and that’s China. But my next guest tells me that the promised tariffs won’t bother China much, as we’ve been discussing. In any way, they in China are dealing with much more important things, like the proposal for the rubber stamp Party Congress which starts its new session today to change the Constitution, and lift all term limits on President Xi Jinping, effectively making him president for life. Now, I’ve been talking to Minxin Pei: he’s a professor of government at Claremont McKenna College in California, and to Robert Lawrence Kuhn, who is the author of How China’s Leaders Think, and he is the host of a show on the government-run CCTV news channel in Beijing. Gentlemen welcome to you both. Let me start by asking you, Robert Lawrence Kuhn there in Beijing. From the Chinese government perspective, these tariffs that the president of the United States has announced, how much does it concern Beijing?
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