{"id":50611,"date":"2022-11-28T02:55:55","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T17:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/27\/xi-unlikely-to-tolerate-dissent-as-momentous-protests-shake-china"},"modified":"2022-11-28T02:55:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T17:55:55","slug":"xi-unlikely-to-tolerate-dissent-as-momentous-protests-shake-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50611","title":{"rendered":"Xi unlikely to tolerate dissent as momentous protests shake China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese leader will see widespread demonstrations against zero-Covid policy as threat to CCP\u2019s authority<\/p>\n<p>Just five weeks after being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/23\/xi-jinping-to-rule-china-for-precedent-breaking-third-term\">elected to a historic third term<\/a>, President Xi Jinping suddenly faces cracks in the facade of unchallenged authority that he so successfully presented to the world at the 20th national congress of the Chinese Communist party.<\/p>\n<p>For groups of protesters, apparently without central coordination, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/27\/anti-lockdown-protests-spread-across-china-amid-growing-anger-at-zero-covid-strategy\">to take to the streets across China and to social media<\/a>, and for some then explicitly to call for Xi and the Communist party to stand aside, is a seismic shock.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/27\/xi-unlikely-to-tolerate-dissent-as-momentous-protests-shake-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese leader will see widespread demonstrations against zero-Covid policy as threat to CCP\u2019s authorityJust five weeks after being elected to a historic third term, President Xi Jinping suddenly faces cracks in the facade of unchallenged authority tha&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"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":[41,50,1066,48,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-hong-kong","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\/50611","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\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50612,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50611\/revisions\/50612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}