This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchelor.

Xi Jinping, the unprecedented third-term general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party,

72 years old, vigorous and ambitious.

These last years, often you hear Xi Jinping's name mention whenever there's a turn in

the road for the Chinese Communist Party and for the People's Republic of China and its military.

There's also the thought of Xi Jinping, a little red book that's meant to echo Mao's little red

book once upon a time in the 1970s.

All of that now comes into question because of talk.

That's what we have, talk around the world.

And Vicki's written a column for geopolitical futures,

a subscription site.

She is an analyst there, and I hardly recommend.

This column pulls together all of plus names and possibilities

of the observed fact that Xi Jinping did not attend bricks, is not attending important ceremonies,

and also ceremonies are going forward without mentioning Xi Jinping's name or his thought.

That is extraordinarily unusual in the ceremony of the Chinese Communist Party.

Vicky, a very good day to you.

Thank you for this column.

Xi Jinping is 72 years old, so let's speak first to the rumors for years that he's had a

health challenge.

Do we have any information on that?

Good evening to you.

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