The ‘politics’ of the 20th Party Congress has been settled in a manner of speaking and a kind of calm appears to be returning to China-watching the world over. Departing from the conventions of tenure and succession in place since the turn of the century, the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) accorded a third five-year term to General Secretary Xi Jinping who, as expected, established his dominance and primacy in the CPC.