{"id":21800,"date":"2020-08-18T16:31:36","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T07:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/18\/china-xi-jinping-facing-widespread-opposition-in-his-own-party-claims-insider"},"modified":"2020-08-18T16:31:36","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T07:31:36","slug":"chinas-xi-jinping-facing-widespread-opposition-in-his-own-party-insider-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21800","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Xi Jinping facing widespread opposition in his own party, insider claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Cai Xia, who has been expelled from the elite Central Party School, says president\u2019s \u2018unchecked power\u2019 has made China \u2018the enemy of the world\u2019 <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/18\/cai-xia-chinese-insider-hits-out-at-xi-jinping-he-killed-a-party-and-a-country\">Transcript: \u2018He killed a party and a country\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A former professor at China\u2019s elite Central Party School has issued an unprecedented rebuke of the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, accusing him of \u201ckilling a country\u201d and claiming that many more want out of the ruling Chinese Communist party.<\/p>\n<p>Cai Xia, a prominent professor who taught at the school for top officials, was expelled from the party on Monday after an <a href=\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2020\/06\/translation-former-party-professor-calls-ccp-a-political-zombie\/\">audio recording<\/a> of remarks she made that were critical of Xi was leaked online in June. The school said in a notice that Cai, a professor at the party school since 1992, had made comments that \u201cdamaged the country\u2019s reputation\u201d and were full of \u201cserious political problems\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/18\/china-xi-jinping-facing-widespread-opposition-in-his-own-party-claims-insider\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Cai Xia, who has been expelled from the elite Central Party School, says president\u2019s \u2018unchecked power\u2019 has made China \u2018the enemy of the world\u2019 Transcript: \u2018He killed a party and a country\u2019A former professor at China\u2019s elite Central Party Sch&#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":[41,50,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21800","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=21800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21803,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21800\/revisions\/21803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}