{"id":50744,"date":"2022-11-30T17:49:02","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T08:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/30\/jiang-zemin-former-chinese-president-dies-at-96"},"modified":"2022-12-01T00:49:34","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T15:49:34","slug":"former-chinese-president-jiang-zemin-dies-at-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50744","title":{"rendered":"Former Chinese president Jiang Zemin dies at 96"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State media say Jiang died from leukaemia and multiple organ failure in Shanghai<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/30\/jiang-zemin-obituary\">Jiang Zemin obituary<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>China\u2019s former leader Jiang Zemin, who was elevated to the head of the Communist party as a loyalist during the Tiananmen protests and then presided over years of economic expansion, has died aged 96.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of death was leukaemia and multiple organ failure, state media said. His life ended in a hospital in Shanghai, the city that was his power base, and has been the scene of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/30\/people-want-to-live-views-from-china-on-the-covid-lockdown-protests\">recent protests against the government and its Covid controls<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/30\/jiang-zemin-former-chinese-president-dies-at-96\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State media say Jiang died from leukaemia and multiple organ failure in ShanghaiJiang Zemin obituaryChina\u2019s former leader Jiang Zemin, who was elevated to the head of the Communist party as a loyalist during the Tiananmen protests and then presided ove&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"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-50744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","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\/50744","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50744"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50749,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50744\/revisions\/50749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}