{"id":47421,"date":"2022-08-13T20:00:38","date_gmt":"2022-08-13T11:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/13\/xi-jinping-faces-stumbling-blocks-as-crucial-communist-party-meeting-looms"},"modified":"2022-08-13T20:00:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-13T11:00:38","slug":"xi-jinping-faces-stumbling-blocks-as-crucial-communist-party-meeting-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47421","title":{"rendered":"Xi Jinping faces stumbling blocks, as crucial Communist party meeting looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a time when he wants to project stability, China\u2019s president is grappling with a long-term crisis over Taiwan, a faltering economy and ongoing Covid outbreaks<\/p>\n<p>Having presided over a grand celebration of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/01\/xi-jinping-warns-china-wont-be-bullied-100-year-anniversary-chinese-communist-party-\">the party\u2019s centenary<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2022\/may\/15\/china-has-avoided-grim-covid-toll-but-at-what-cost\">suppressed mass Covid outbreaks<\/a> last year, China\u2019s president, Xi Jinping, told his countrymen and women in his 2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fmprc.gov.cn\/mfa_eng\/wjdt_665385\/zyjh_665391\/202112\/t20211231_10478096.html\">New Year address<\/a> that the Chinese nation was \u201cmaking confident strides on the path toward the great rejuvenation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>But so far, the Year of the Tiger has been full of stumbling blocks. First, the draconian Covid lockdowns in major cities such as Xi\u2019an and Shanghai, the commercial capital, sparked outcry and disrupted global supply chains. Then the economy showed signs of a serious slowdown, leading to growing unemployment among the young. Xi\u2019s \u201cno limit\u201d partnership with Vladimir Putin also made China a target of western criticism.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/13\/xi-jinping-faces-stumbling-blocks-as-crucial-communist-party-meeting-looms\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a time when he wants to project stability, China\u2019s president is grappling with a long-term crisis over Taiwan, a faltering economy and ongoing Covid outbreaksHaving presided over a grand celebration of the party\u2019s centenary and suppressed mass Covid&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2096,"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-47421","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\/47421","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\/2096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47422,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47421\/revisions\/47422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}