{"id":49561,"date":"2022-10-23T13:13:01","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T04:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/23\/xi-jinping-to-rule-china-for-precedent-breaking-third-term"},"modified":"2022-10-23T20:23:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T11:23:20","slug":"xi-jinping-to-rule-china-for-precedent-breaking-third-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49561","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s leader Xi Jinping secures third term and stacks inner circle with loyalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Xi unveiled as general secretary of ruling Communist Party, tilting China back towards one-man rule after decades of power-sharing among elite<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2022\/oct\/23\/chinas-president-xi-jinping-expected-to-secure-historic-third-term-in-power\">Xi Jinping confirmed as China\u2019s leader \u2013 live<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Xi Jinping has been confirmed as leader of China for a precedent-breaking third term, after a week-long political meeting eliminated key rivals and strengthened his political power.<\/p>\n<p>The 20th Party Congress, the most important meeting of the ruling Chinese Communist party five-year political cycle, saw about 2,400 delegates gather in Beijing to rubber-stamp major reshuffles and constitutional changes before its official close on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/23\/xi-jinping-to-rule-china-for-precedent-breaking-third-term\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xi unveiled as general secretary of ruling Communist Party, tilting China back towards one-man rule after decades of power-sharing among eliteXi Jinping confirmed as China\u2019s leader \u2013 liveXi Jinping has been confirmed as leader of China for a precedent-&#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-49561","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\/49561","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=49561"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49578,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49561\/revisions\/49578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}