{"id":12524,"date":"2019-12-28T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-28T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/28\/chinas-leaders-seeking-to-draw-strength-from-weakness-in-2020"},"modified":"2019-12-28T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-28T05:00:00","slug":"chinas-leaders-seeking-to-draw-strength-from-weakness-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12524","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s leaders seeking to &#8216;draw strength from weakness&#8217; in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Faced with problems at home and abroad, Beijing will seek to boost nationalist sentiment by blaming foreign influences <\/p>\n<p>In early December, China\u2019s ministry of foreign affairs jumped the Great Fire Wall used by Beijing to block access to many foreign websites, and joined Twitter to communicate directly with the outside world.<\/p>\n<p>Its tweets so far have ranged from calling the US a \u201cSUPER LIAR\u201d and upbraiding foreign journalists, to lauding China\u2019s victories: \u201cChina\u2019s vast land of 9.6 million km\u00b2 is free from war, fear, refugees and displacement. People of 56 ethnic groups live happy life, BEST human rights achievement!\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/28\/chinas-leaders-seeking-to-draw-strength-from-weakness-in-2020\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faced with problems at home and abroad, Beijing will seek to boost nationalist sentiment by blaming foreign influences In early December, China\u2019s ministry of foreign affairs jumped the Great Fire Wall used by Beijing to block access to many foreign web&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,48,67,42,49,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-uighurs","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping","category-xinjiang"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12525,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12524\/revisions\/12525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}