{"id":15852,"date":"2020-03-15T15:27:05","date_gmt":"2020-03-15T06:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/15\/chinese-executive-who-called-xi-a-clown-over-coronavirus-response-is-missing"},"modified":"2020-03-15T15:27:05","modified_gmt":"2020-03-15T06:27:05","slug":"chinese-executive-who-called-xi-a-clown-over-coronavirus-response-is-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=15852","title":{"rendered":"Chinese executive who called Xi a &#8216;clown&#8217; over coronavirus response &#8216;is missing&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friends of the high-profile former property developer say they have been unable to contact him for three days <\/p>\n<p>An influential former Chinese property executive who called president Xi Jinping a \u201cclown\u201d over a speech he made last month about the government\u2019s efforts to battle the coronavirus has gone missing, according to his friends. <\/p>\n<p>Ren Zhiqiang, a member of China\u2019s ruling Communist party and a former top executive of state-controlled property developer Huayuan Real Estate Group, has not been contactable since 12 March, three of his friends told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/15\/chinese-executive-who-called-xi-a-clown-over-coronavirus-response-is-missing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends of the high-profile former property developer say they have been unable to contact him for three days An influential former Chinese property executive who called president Xi Jinping a \u201cclown\u201d over a speech he made last month about the governme&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[41,50,662,1069,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-communism","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15852","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15853,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15852\/revisions\/15853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}