Xi Jinping became China's new leader yesterday, assuming the top posts in the Communist Party and the powerful military, in a political transition unbowed by scandals, a slower economy and public demands for reforms.
Mr Xi was introduced as the new party general secretary at Beijing's Great Hall of the People a day after the close of a week-long party congress that underlined the communists' determination to remain firmly in power.
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