China's rubber-stamp parliament gives Xi Jinping another term as chinas president. Xi Jinping has risen to be one of China's most powerful leaders.

Xi secured another five-year term as Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The 69-year-old Xi has faced widespread criticism for his zero-Covid policy, as well as the deaths of countless people due to its abandonment.

These issues have yet to be discussed at this week's National People's Congress (NPC), a carefully orchestrated event that will appoint Xi ally Li Qiang as the new premier. The Great Hall of the People in Beijing, a massive state building on the outskirts of Tiananmen Square, was decked out in crimson carpets and banners for the historic vote, with a military band playing music in the background.

PHOTO | COURTESY  Xi Jinping 

Following the announcement, representatives of the Chinese constitution made fervent declarations of allegiance in a show of loyalty and unanimity.

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Xi made a fist with his right hand and rested his left hand on a red leather copy of China's constitution.

"I swear to be loyal to the constitution of the People's Republic of China, to uphold the authority of the constitution, to perform my statutory obligations, to be loyal to the motherland, to be loyal to the people," he said