General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (2012–) and President of the People's Republic of China (2013–) — who ended term limits, consolidated personal power beyond Deng Xiaoping's collective leadership model, launched the Belt and Road Initiative, and undertook the most aggressive Chinese territorial expansion since Mao.
Reverses Deng Xiaoping's separation of party and government — Xi's concentration of power (removing term limits, heading all key commissions, establishing 'Xi Jinping Thought' as party ideology) represents the most significant change in Chinese governance since Mao, trading institutional stability for personal authority.
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