{"id":49366,"date":"2022-10-15T23:11:39","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T14:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/15\/chinese-congress-expected-to-cement-power-of-xi-jinping"},"modified":"2022-10-15T23:11:39","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T14:11:39","slug":"chinese-congress-expected-to-cement-power-of-xi-jinping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49366","title":{"rendered":"Chinese congress expected to cement power of Xi Jinping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Constitutional changes likely to enshrine leader as \u2018core\u2019 of ruling Communist party<\/p>\n<p>The highest level meeting of China\u2019s ruling Communist party this week is likely to include constitutional changes to further cement the power of the country\u2019s leader, Xi Jinping, party officials have confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Xi is expected to regain his position as leader of the CCP and its military commission at the week-long conference, setting the stage for retaining the presidency next year, after abolishing term limits in 2018.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/15\/chinese-congress-expected-to-cement-power-of-xi-jinping\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Constitutional changes likely to enshrine leader as \u2018core\u2019 of ruling Communist partyThe highest level meeting of China\u2019s ruling Communist party this week is likely to include constitutional changes to further cement the power of the country\u2019s leader, X&#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-49366","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\/49366","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=49366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49367,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49366\/revisions\/49367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}