{"id":48836,"date":"2022-09-26T14:54:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T05:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/26\/china-becomes-hothouse-of-intrigue-ahead-of-crucial-communist-party-congress"},"modified":"2022-09-26T14:54:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T05:54:00","slug":"china-becomes-hothouse-of-intrigue-ahead-of-crucial-communist-party-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48836","title":{"rendered":"China becomes \u2018hothouse\u2019 of intrigue ahead of crucial Communist party congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swiftly debunked rumours of coups swirl as Beijing prepares to host critical meeting of elite, at which Xi Jinping is expected to be granted a third term<\/p>\n<p>Purges of senior officials and unfounded rumours of military coups in Beijing have fed into feverish speculation ahead of a key meeting of China\u2019s ruling party next month, when president Xi Jinping is expected to be granted an unprecedented third term.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/23\/chinas-former-justice-minister-faces-life-in-prison-amid-purge-of-security-officials\">jailing of a clique of senior security officials<\/a> for corruption, followed by days of strange and quickly dispelled rumours of Xi being under house arrest, have fuelled what one analyst called a \u201chothouse\u201d environment mired in secrecy and suspicion.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/26\/china-becomes-hothouse-of-intrigue-ahead-of-crucial-communist-party-congress\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swiftly debunked rumours of coups swirl as Beijing prepares to host critical meeting of elite, at which Xi Jinping is expected to be granted a third termPurges of senior officials and unfounded rumours of military coups in Beijing have fed into feveris&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[41,50,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","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\/48836","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48837,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48836\/revisions\/48837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}