 Australia (ranked 8th) and Taiwan (ranked 33rd) both legalised same-sex marriage in 2017.In China, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, further entrenched his power by writing his contribution to the Chinese Communist Party's ideology, dubbed Xi Jinping Thought, into the party's constitution.Moldova was downgraded from a flawed democracy to a hybrid regime as a result of problematic elections.