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China’s Communist Party has ended its four-day meeting with the promotion of Vice President Xi Jinping to a key military post. That may sound like mere bureaucratic shuffling. But it’s another sign that Xi is likely to become China’s next president. The World’s Mary Kay Magistad covered the meeting of the ruling party’s governing Central Committee in Beijing.

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