{"id":34322,"date":"2021-07-23T18:19:50","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T09:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/23\/chinese-leader-xi-jinping-makes-first-visit-to-tibet-as-president"},"modified":"2021-07-23T18:19:50","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T09:19:50","slug":"chinese-leader-xi-jinping-makes-first-visit-to-tibet-as-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34322","title":{"rendered":"Chinese leader Xi Jinping makes first visit to Tibet as president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Visit comes as China tightens control over region\u2019s Buddhist culture and invests heavily in infrastructure<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese leader has made his first visit to Tibet as president as authorities tighten controls over the Himalayan region\u2019s traditional Buddhist culture, accompanied by an accelerated drive for economic development and modernised infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>State media reported on Friday that Xi Jinping had visited sites in the capital, Lhasa, including the Drepung monastery, Barkhor Street and the public square at the base of the Potala Palace that was home to the Dalai Lamas, Tibet\u2019s traditional spiritual and temporal leaders.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/23\/chinese-leader-xi-jinping-makes-first-visit-to-tibet-as-president\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visit comes as China tightens control over region\u2019s Buddhist culture and invests heavily in infrastructureThe Chinese leader has made his first visit to Tibet as president as authorities tighten controls over the Himalayan region\u2019s traditional Buddhist&#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":[41,50,609,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-tibet","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\/34322","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=34322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34323,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34322\/revisions\/34323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}