{"id":47992,"date":"2022-08-30T23:07:20","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T14:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/30\/china-communist-party-to-hold-congress-set-to-cement-xis-rule"},"modified":"2022-08-30T23:07:20","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T14:07:20","slug":"chinas-communist-party-to-hold-congress-set-to-cement-xis-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47992","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Communist party to hold congress set to cement Xi&#8217;s rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Xi Jinping expected to be given third term and be anointed as country\u2019s  most powerful leader in decades<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s ruling Communist party will begin its 20th congress on 16 October, state media has reported, a meeting at which President Xi Jinping is expected to be anointed as the country\u2019s most powerful leader in decades.<\/p>\n<p>The congress in Beijing comes as Xi faces significant political headwinds, including an ailing economy, deteriorating relations with the US and a strict zero-Covid policy that has accelerated China\u2019s inward turn from the world.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/30\/china-communist-party-to-hold-congress-set-to-cement-xis-rule\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xi Jinping expected to be given third term and be anointed as country\u2019s  most powerful leader in decadesChina\u2019s ruling Communist party will begin its 20th congress on 16 October, state media has reported, a meeting at which President Xi Jinping is expe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":856,"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":[41,50,662,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-communism","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\/47992","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\/856"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47993,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47992\/revisions\/47993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}