An article criticizing Chinese leader Xi Jinping was allowed to go viral in mainland China, reflecting the intense struggle among different factions in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its impact on Xi’s ruling. China experts have said that Xi might not secure a third term, which will be revealed at the rubber-stamp legislature’s 20th conference in this fall, although Xi amended the constitution successfully in 2018 to remove term limitations. “The 40,000 words long article listed mistakes that Xi Jinping has made in politics, economy, and diplomacy. It’s a summary of Xi’s ruling over the past nine years,” Li Hengqing, a China expert at the Washington Institute for Information and Strategy, told the Chinese-language Epoch Times on Feb. 8. “After 2018, we all said that there’s no force to stop Xi from taking a third term. Now, we can see that the situation isn’t simple, and it’s unclear whether …