{"id":18490,"date":"2020-05-20T23:32:14","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T14:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/20\/china-prepares-to-stage-annual-congress-and-pretence-of-business-as-usual"},"modified":"2020-05-20T23:32:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T14:32:14","slug":"china-prepares-to-stage-annual-congress-and-pretence-of-business-as-usual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18490","title":{"rendered":"China prepares to stage annual congress \u2013 and pretence of business as usual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delayed event to signal victory over coronavirus but country in unchartered economic and social territory<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thousands of delegates streaming into Beijing for China\u2019s most important political event of the year have undergone nucleic acid tests and quarantines amid what state media have called \u201cwartime measures\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The National People\u2019s Congress is usually a two-week affair of pomp and pageantry but this year\u2019s event has been shortened and some sessions will be held over video link.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/20\/china-prepares-to-stage-annual-congress-and-pretence-of-business-as-usual\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delayed event to signal victory over coronavirus but country in unchartered economic and social territoryCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThousands of delegates streaming into Beijing for China\u2019s most important political even&#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":[41,50,556,1069,457,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-chinese-economy","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-freedom-of-speech","category-world-news","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\/18490","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=18490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18491,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18490\/revisions\/18491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}