{"id":49373,"date":"2022-10-16T12:02:02","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T03:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/16\/xi-jinping-speech-opens-china-communist-party-congress"},"modified":"2022-10-16T15:32:37","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T06:32:37","slug":"xi-jinping-speech-opens-china-communist-party-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49373","title":{"rendered":"Xi Jinping opens Chinese Communist party congress with warning for Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President supports peaceful reunification but will \u2018never promise to renounce use of force\u2019 as speech launches event likely to grant him third five-year term<\/p>\n<p>Xi Jinping celebrated China\u2019s crushing of Hong Kong\u2019s autonomy and warned Taiwan that the \u201cwheels of history\u201d are turning towards Beijing taking control of the island democracy in his speech opening the Communist party congress.<\/p>\n<p>The most important gathering in the five-year Chinese political cycle is expected to hand Xi another five-year term running China, cementing his position as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/15\/china-xi-jinping-communist-party-congress\">most powerful leader since Mao Zedong<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/16\/xi-jinping-speech-opens-china-communist-party-congress\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President supports peaceful reunification but will \u2018never promise to renounce use of force\u2019 as speech launches event likely to grant him third five-year termXi Jinping celebrated China\u2019s crushing of Hong Kong\u2019s autonomy and warned Taiwan that the \u201cwhee&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":244,"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-49373","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\/49373","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\/244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49373"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49390,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49373\/revisions\/49390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}