{"id":49629,"date":"2022-10-25T11:24:42","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T02:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/25\/xi-jinping-party-purge-china-taiwan-invasion-risk"},"modified":"2022-10-25T11:24:42","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T02:24:42","slug":"xi-jinpings-party-purge-prompts-fears-of-greater-taiwan-invasion-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49629","title":{"rendered":"Xi Jinping\u2019s party purge prompts fears of greater Taiwan invasion risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Observers wonder whether there is anyone left in CCP to stop Chinese president making a rash move<\/p>\n<p>Xi Jinping\u2019s purging of political rivals and elevation of loyalists to the top ranks of the Chinese Communist party has raised fears that his now unfettered and unquestionable power could increase the risk of an attack on Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing has pledged to annex Taiwan under a disputed claim that it is a Chinese province, and in recent years has increased its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/10\/china-taiwan-military-drills-the-new-normal-analysts-say\">military activity<\/a> and other forms of harassment and coercion. No timeline has been set, but senior defence figures have said China could be capable of invasion as early as 2027. Others point to Xi\u2019s pledge of \u201cnational rejuvenation\u201d by 2047 \u2013 the centenary of the People\u2019s Republic of China \u2013 as a potential goal.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/25\/xi-jinping-party-purge-china-taiwan-invasion-risk\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Observers wonder whether there is anyone left in CCP to stop Chinese president making a rash moveXi Jinping\u2019s purging of political rivals and elevation of loyalists to the top ranks of the Chinese Communist party has raised fears that his now unfettere&#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":[41,50,74,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-taiwan","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\/49629","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=49629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49630,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49629\/revisions\/49630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}