Today Xi Jinping became the first leader since Mao to be elected as party chief for a third term. In his decade at the helm, he has centralized power in his own hands, ruthlessly eliminated rivals, promoted a cult of personality, silenced criticism and enshrined his ideology – Xi Jinping’s Thoughts on Socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era-. the Constitution He is known, only half jokingly, as the President of Everything.