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Chairman of everything: Xi Jinping, with constitution change, proves he is here to stay

The year that Xi's ideology was written into China's constitution, an honour reserved only for Mao and Deng.

Xi Jinping, 64

If the unexpected, and chaotic, rise of Donald Trump was the story of 2016, the seemingly inevitable, but no less spectacular, emergence of China's 'Chairman of Everything' marked 2017, when Xi Jinping, the "princeling" son of a

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