{"id":50916,"date":"2022-12-06T09:36:31","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T00:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/06\/china-jiang-zemin-memorial-service"},"modified":"2022-12-06T14:02:30","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T05:02:30","slug":"china-to-come-to-standstill-for-late-leader-jiang-zemins-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50916","title":{"rendered":"Hu Jintao reappears as China comes to standstill for late leader Jiang Zemin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former leader who was removed from a key meeting in October attended the memorial where Xi Jinping urged country to \u2018turn grief into strength\u2019<\/p>\n<p>China has paused to remember the late former leader, Jiang Zemin, with a rollcall of Beijing\u2019s political elite attending memorial services including the former leader Hu Jintao in his first public appearances since his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/28\/china-hu-jintao-removal-20th-party-congress-suspicious-or-not\">shocking removal<\/a> from a top Communist party meeting in October.<\/p>\n<p>Sirens wailed across the country on Tuesday as the Communist party eulogised Jiang on a national day of mourning, hailing him as a patriot who \u201cdedicated his life\u201d to the country and weathered \u201cpolitical storms\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/06\/china-jiang-zemin-memorial-service\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former leader who was removed from a key meeting in October attended the memorial where Xi Jinping urged country to \u2018turn grief into strength\u2019China has paused to remember the late former leader, Jiang Zemin, with a rollcall of Beijing\u2019s political elite&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50916","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=50916"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50924,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50916\/revisions\/50924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}