{"id":49581,"date":"2022-10-23T19:50:12","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T10:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/23\/xi-jinping-chooses-yes-men-over-economic-growth-politburo-purge-china"},"modified":"2022-10-23T19:50:12","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T10:50:12","slug":"xi-jinping-chooses-yes-men-over-economic-growth-in-politburo-purge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49581","title":{"rendered":"Xi Jinping chooses \u2018yes\u2019 men over economic growth in politburo purge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s president doubles down on ruling for life, excluding potential future leaders or factional rivals<\/p>\n<p>Xi Jinping has stacked the senior Chinese Communist party ranks with loyalists, showing China\u2019s ever more powerful leader favours loyalty over merit \u2013 and wants rule insulated from criticism or questioning. <\/p>\n<p>The appointments, which were revealed on Sunday, have raised concerns that Xi has surrounded himself with \u201cyes men\u201d as he leads China through what he called the \u201cchoppy waters\u201d of the future, some of which are of his own making. The country is facing domestic economic troubles and worsening global tensions as Xi doubles down on threats to annex Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/23\/xi-jinping-chooses-yes-men-over-economic-growth-politburo-purge-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s president doubles down on ruling for life, excluding potential future leaders or factional rivalsXi Jinping has stacked the senior Chinese Communist party ranks with loyalists, showing China\u2019s ever more powerful leader favours loyalty over meri&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1233,"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-49581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","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\/49581","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\/1233"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49582,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49581\/revisions\/49582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}