China's removal of presidential term limits, effectively letting President Xi Jinping hold office for life, will have no impact on the its culture, artist Ai Weiwei said on Monday, as he unveiled a giant artwork in Sydney depicting asylum seekers. In Sydney, Ai presented his 60-metre (197-ft) -long inflatable raft, carrying about 300 oversized human figures, a day after China removed the term limits from its constitution, raising concerns about a return to strongman rule. "China has always been an imperial state," Ai, 60, told the Australian Broadcasting Corp in an interview. It's a fatalistic society, so (if) it changes leader or not, the system and the culture always stays the same. The ideas to respect very basic human values are becoming more and more important for a society to maintain competition."

Source: dna March 12, 2018 10:32 UTC