{"id":50839,"date":"2022-12-03T17:00:38","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T08:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/03\/china-easing-covid-curbs-does-not-solve-xi-jinping-dilemma"},"modified":"2022-12-03T17:00:38","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T08:00:38","slug":"chinas-easing-of-covid-curbs-does-not-solve-xi-jinpings-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50839","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s easing of Covid curbs does not solve Xi Jinping\u2019s dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Loosening controls further could spark a devastating outbreak, but tightening the rules again could trigger unrest<\/p>\n<p>At the end of October, Xi Jinping had secured his position as China\u2019s most powerful leader in decades, his grip on the country cemented by a norm-breaking third term in office.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of November, he faced the most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/02\/china-brings-in-emergency-level-censorship-over-zero-covid-protests\">widespread protests<\/a> China had seen in decades, mostly focused on Covid restrictions but also featuring unprecedented calls for Xi to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/nov\/27\/xi-jinping-step-down-anti-lockdown-protests-spread-across-china-video\">step down<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/03\/china-easing-covid-curbs-does-not-solve-xi-jinping-dilemma\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loosening controls further could spark a devastating outbreak, but tightening the rules again could trigger unrestAt the end of October, Xi Jinping had secured his position as China\u2019s most powerful leader in decades, his grip on the country cemented by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"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":[41,50,1066,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","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\/50839","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50840,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50839\/revisions\/50840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}