{"id":37526,"date":"2021-10-01T13:28:41","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T04:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/01\/chinese-ex-official-on-trial-for-corruption-as-xi-jinpings-purge-continues"},"modified":"2021-10-01T13:28:41","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T04:28:41","slug":"chinese-ex-official-on-trial-for-corruption-as-xi-jinpings-purge-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37526","title":{"rendered":"Chinese ex-official on trial for corruption as Xi Jinping\u2019s purge continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former vice minister of security Sun Lijun accused of extreme \u2018political ambition\u2019 and leading a corrupt and extravagant life<\/p>\n<p>A former senior Chinese official has been accused of a raft of corruption offences, expelled from the Communist party and put on trial, in the latest case in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/oct\/30\/china-attacks-schemers-and-plotters-and-pledges-to-set-up-state-anti-corruption-unit\">purge led by leader Xi Jinping<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After a 17-month investigation, China\u2019s top anti-corruption bodies announced the case against the former vice minister of state security Sun Lijun had been sent to prosecutors, state media reported.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/01\/chinese-ex-official-on-trial-for-corruption-as-xi-jinpings-purge-continues\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former vice minister of security Sun Lijun accused of extreme \u2018political ambition\u2019 and leading a corrupt and extravagant lifeA former senior Chinese official has been accused of a raft of corruption offences, expelled from the Communist party and put o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"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":[50,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37526","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\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37527,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37526\/revisions\/37527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}