> in particular, leaders would rotate into and out of the highest offices, and not hold more than one senior office at a time. The rule was only on the paper.

> in particular, leaders would rotate into and out of the highest offices, and not hold more than one senior office at a time. The rule was only on the paper. Prior to Jiang, all intermediary period leaders were forcefully removed from the office. Jiang almost managed to stay in power indefinitely, just like Xi. Hu was purposefully undermined, and politically eunuchised from the start by much stronger parties who ran the CPC behind his backs: namely the gang to whom Xi is the heir to the throne, and Jiang Zemin's one who also wanted to put their own man there. Were Hu having even a sliver of political power on the level of Jiang, or Xi, he would've tried to stay the third term too. Really, there were really no rules in Chinese political system besides the survival of the fittest (or the most ruthless.)