{"id":49711,"date":"2022-10-28T11:00:15","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T02:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/28\/china-hu-jintao-removal-20th-party-congress-suspicious-or-not"},"modified":"2022-10-28T11:00:15","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T02:00:15","slug":"was-hu-jintaos-removal-from-chinas-20th-party-congress-suspicious-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49711","title":{"rendered":"Was Hu Jintao\u2019s removal from China\u2019s 20th party congress suspicious or not?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Incident has split China watchers with some saying former leader was unwell and others it was political purge by Xi Jinping<\/p>\n<p>After eight days of China\u2019s most important political meeting, in which the autocratic leader Xi Jinping\u2019s precedent-breaking third term was confirmed, belligerent foreign policy reaffirmed, and the leader of the world\u2019s largest population and second-largest economy announced through the next five years, one question was on everyone\u2019s lips: what on earth happened to Hu Jintao and where is he now?<\/p>\n<p>The drama happened on Saturday morning. In a short window between foreign media being allowed into Beijing\u2019s Great Hall and the start of the final public meeting of the 20th party congress, the former Chinese leader Hu <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/22\/former-chinese-president-hu-jintao-unexpectedly-led-out-of-party-congress\">was physically removed from his seat next to his successor, Xi<\/a>, and out of the Great Hall of the People.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/28\/china-hu-jintao-removal-20th-party-congress-suspicious-or-not\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incident has split China watchers with some saying former leader was unwell and others it was political purge by Xi JinpingAfter eight days of China\u2019s most important political meeting, in which the autocratic leader Xi Jinping\u2019s precedent-breaking thir&#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":[41,50,2790,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hu-jintao","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\/49711","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=49711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49712,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49711\/revisions\/49712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}