The time has come. The 20th Communist Party Congress, starting on October 16th, is expected to confirm Xi Jinping as Party General Secretary for a third five-year term. Such an outcome has been very likely ever since 2017, after the 19th Party Congress included Xi Jinping’s in the Party Constitution and no plausible successor emerged. A few months later, a new amendment in the Constitution granted him the role of President of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) for more than two mandates.