President Xi Jinping was appointed to a third 5-year term at the Communist Party Congress. He also elevated several allies to leadership positions.

Xi Jinping has firmly secured a norm-busting third term as leader of the Chinese Communist Party and cemented his power atop a more confident, and more defiant, China.

After securing his iron grip on power in a leadership reshuffle late last month, Chinese leader Xi Jinping is now moving back onto the world’s stage – in person – in an apparent bid to ...