{"id":49115,"date":"2022-10-06T10:20:37","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T01:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/06\/nationalist-fervour-ratcheted-up-in-lead-up-to-chinas-communist-party-congress"},"modified":"2022-10-06T10:20:37","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T01:20:37","slug":"nationalist-fervour-ratcheted-up-in-lead-up-to-chinas-communist-party-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49115","title":{"rendered":"Nationalist fervour ratcheted up in lead up to China\u2019s communist party congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Communist Party officials present a united front, quashing internet rumours of a coup<\/p>\n<p>Chinese authorities are ratcheting up nationalistic sentiment in the run up to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/19\/china-communist-party-ccp-national-congress-xi-jinping-delegates-explained-in-30-seconds\">key meeting of the country\u2019s ruling party<\/a> where party leader Xi Jinping is expected to gain an unprecedented third term.<\/p>\n<p>In recent weeks, state media has amplified the patriotic themes of \u201cstruggle\u201d and \u201cred heritage\u201d while warning of internal and external threats ahead of the Chinese Communist party\u2019s most important political meeting. <\/p>\n<p>On Monday Xi was quoted in a front page article by the People\u2019s Daily newspaper as saying, \u201cwe must continue our \u2018red blood heritage,\u2019 inspire the fighting spirit and lead the way with the party\u2019s history of struggle and great achievements.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/06\/nationalist-fervour-ratcheted-up-in-lead-up-to-chinas-communist-party-congress\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Communist Party officials present a united front, quashing internet rumours of a coupChinese authorities are ratcheting up nationalistic sentiment in the run up to a key meeting of the country\u2019s ruling party where party leader Xi Jinping is expe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":411,"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-49115","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\/49115","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\/411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49115"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49128,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49115\/revisions\/49128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}