{"id":36287,"date":"2021-09-02T15:00:17","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T06:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/02\/xi-jinpings-drive-for-economic-equality-comes-at-a-delicate-moment-for-china"},"modified":"2021-09-02T15:00:17","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T06:00:17","slug":"xi-jinpings-drive-for-economic-equality-comes-at-a-delicate-moment-for-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36287","title":{"rendered":"Xi Jinping\u2019s drive for economic equality comes at a delicate moment for China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President wants to spread \u2018common prosperity\u2019 but Covid and material shortages could spell trouble<\/p>\n<p>For decades the aim in China has been the pursuit of growth, building the world\u2019s second-largest economy from a relative backwater on the international stage. Now, the promise from Beijing is to enlarge the economic pie and divide it well.<\/p>\n<p>President Xi Jinping announced plans this month to spread \u201ccommon prosperity\u201d in what is one of the world\u2019s most unequal major economies, signalling a shift from his predecessors\u2019 pursuit of growth and heralding a tough <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/18\/chinese-president-xi-jinping-vows-to-adjust-excessive-incomes-of-super-rich\">crackdown on wealthy elites<\/a> \u2013 including China\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2021\/aug\/21\/the-partys-over-china-clamps-down-on-its-tech-billionaires\">burgeoning group of technology billionaires<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/02\/xi-jinpings-drive-for-economic-equality-comes-at-a-delicate-moment-for-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President wants to spread \u2018common prosperity\u2019 but Covid and material shortages could spell troubleFor decades the aim in China has been the pursuit of growth, building the world\u2019s second-largest economy from a relative backwater on the international st&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1004,"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":[50,1066,587,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-economic-policy","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\/36287","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\/1004"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36288,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36287\/revisions\/36288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}