{"id":19354,"date":"2020-06-16T03:05:27","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T18:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/15\/chinese-billionaire-rescued-after-being-held-hostage-with-family"},"modified":"2020-06-16T03:05:27","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T18:05:27","slug":"chinese-billionaire-rescued-after-being-held-hostage-with-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19354","title":{"rendered":"Chinese billionaire rescued after being held hostage with family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police arrest five people over attempt to kidnap Midea Group co-founder He Xiangjian<\/p>\n<p>Chinese police have rescued one of China\u2019s richest men after he and his family were taken hostage in their home by intruders apparently armed with explosives.<\/p>\n<p>Local media reported that He Xiangjian, the billionaire co-founder of the world\u2019s biggest appliance manufacturer, Midea, was freed on Monday after his son managed to escape and swim across a small river to alert police.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/15\/chinese-billionaire-rescued-after-being-held-hostage-with-family\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police arrest five people over attempt to kidnap Midea Group co-founder He XiangjianChinese police have rescued one of China\u2019s richest men after he and his family were taken hostage in their home by intruders apparently armed with explosives.Local medi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"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":[41,50,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19354","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19355,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19354\/revisions\/19355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}