{"id":49569,"date":"2022-10-23T15:00:30","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T06:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/23\/xi-follows-maos-footsteps-puts-himself-at-core-of-chinas-government"},"modified":"2022-10-23T15:00:30","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T06:00:30","slug":"in-maos-footsteps-xi-jinping-puts-himself-at-core-of-chinas-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49569","title":{"rendered":"In Mao\u2019s footsteps: Xi Jinping puts himself at core of China\u2019s government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President would normally step down now after 10 years as leader, but he has abolished term limits and promoted his allies<\/p>\n<p>Xi Jinping has eliminated key rivals from China\u2019s leadership and consolidated his grip on the country on the final day of a Communist party meeting at which former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/22\/former-chinese-president-hu-jintao-unexpectedly-led-out-of-party-congress\" title=\"\">president Hu Jintao was led away unexpectedly from the main stage<\/a>. Hu\u2019s departure was a rare moment of unscripted drama in what is usually carefully choreographed political theatre.<\/p>\n<p>The closing session of the 20th congress of the Chinese Communist party (CCP) ended a weekend of triumph for Xi that makes him China\u2019s most powerful ruler since Mao Zedong. He has swept away the last norms of a political order built since Mao\u2019s death to prevent a return to the worst excesses of rule by a single autocrat.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/23\/xi-follows-maos-footsteps-puts-himself-at-core-of-chinas-government\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President would normally step down now after 10 years as leader, but he has abolished term limits and promoted his alliesXi Jinping has eliminated key rivals from China\u2019s leadership and consolidated his grip on the country on the final day of a Communi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3382,"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":[41,50,2790,74,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hu-jintao","category-taiwan","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49569","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\/3382"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49570,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49569\/revisions\/49570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}