"How Are Things Going to Go on Under Xi’s Leadership?"

In Beijing, the penultimate Central Committee meeting before next year’s 20th Party Congress has just come to a close. Officially, the agenda for this week’s nonpublic meeting of China’s 200 or so party leaders focuses on an updated resolution on the history of the Chinese Communist Party, or CCP.
The bigger story, however, is how incumbent CCP leader Xi Jinping will continue to rule China going forward. What are his options?