{"id":20911,"date":"2020-07-24T00:59:58","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T15:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/23\/chinas-actions-are-a-reflection-of-confidence-and-xi-jinpings-iron-grip"},"modified":"2020-07-24T00:59:58","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T15:59:58","slug":"why-is-xi-jinping-pitting-china-against-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20911","title":{"rendered":"Why is Xi Jinping pitting China against the world?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Xi has stifled dissent at home and is increasingly willing for China to assert itself abroad <\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Chinese leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/xi-jinping\">Xi Jinping<\/a> held a rare meeting in Beijing with business leaders. Admitting that the Covid-19 pandemic had a \u201chuge impact\u201d on the country\u2019s economy, Xi used a Chinese idiom to assure his listeners.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile the green hills last, there will be wood to burn,\u201d he said. \u201cIf we maintain our strategy \u2026 we will find opportunity in crisis and turbulence. The Chinese people will surely prevail over all difficulties and challenges ahead\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/23\/chinas-actions-are-a-reflection-of-confidence-and-xi-jinpings-iron-grip\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xi has stifled dissent at home and is increasingly willing for China to assert itself abroad Earlier this week, Chinese leader Xi Jinping held a rare meeting in Beijing with business leaders. Admitting that the Covid-19 pandemic had a \u201chuge impact\u201d on &#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":[41,50,48,517,88,535,67,47,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-huawei","category-japan","category-south-china-sea","category-uighurs","category-us-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\/20911","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=20911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20912,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20911\/revisions\/20912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}