Xi Jinping continues to exercise formal authority as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and President through routine official actions, including public statements, policy directives on economic planning, and diplomatic engagements as recently as March 2026. Structural factors such as the 2018 removal of presidential term limits and the absence of a designated successor or institutional mechanism for leadership transition reinforce expectations of continuity through the 2027 Party Congress. Earlier 2025 speculation around public absences, military purges, and possible power delegation produced no verifiable shift in his position, and subsequent reporting has shown sustained control over party and state bodies. Traders assign a 93% implied probability to “No” on removal before 2027, reflecting the lack of concrete political developments capable of altering entrenched leadership arrangements in the near term.