{"id":32728,"date":"2021-06-02T15:09:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T06:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/02\/china-communist-party-happiness-xi-jinping-negative-image"},"modified":"2021-06-03T08:14:14","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T23:14:14","slug":"china-communist-party-striving-for-peoples-happiness-says-xi-jinping-in-call-for-charm-offensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32728","title":{"rendered":"China Communist party \u2018striving for people\u2019s happiness\u2019, says Xi Jinping, in call for charm offensive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China must tell the world a better story about itself, says president, as he seeks stronger \u2018international voice\u2019<\/p>\n<p>China needs to improve the way it tells the world stories about itself, and convince people the ruling party is striving for the happiness of all Chinese people, Xi Jinping has said.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese president\u2019s comments to a Communist party meeting on Tuesday come amid the country\u2019s growing isolation in the global community, and tension with international media, largely driven by international concerns over human rights abuses.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/02\/china-communist-party-happiness-xi-jinping-negative-image\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China must tell the world a better story about itself, says president, as he seeks stronger \u2018international voice\u2019China needs to improve the way it tells the world stories about itself, and convince people the ruling party is striving for the happiness &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[41,50,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","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\/32728","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32728"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32738,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32728\/revisions\/32738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}