{"id":51600,"date":"2023-01-01T19:00:44","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T10:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/01\/chinas-president-xi-battles-to-save-face-as-covid-u-turn-weakens-his-grip-on-power"},"modified":"2023-01-01T19:00:44","modified_gmt":"2023-01-01T10:00:44","slug":"chinas-president-xi-battles-to-save-face-as-covid-u-turn-weakens-his-grip-on-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51600","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s President Xi battles to save face as Covid U-turn weakens his grip on power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite public bullishness, overflowing hospitals across the country suggest its  leader may have made a huge miscalculation<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s leader Xi Jinping told his country it stands on \u201cthe right side of history\u201d in a new year address on Saturday, but experts have warned that the president starts 2023 diminished by his chaotic U-turn on Covid strategy.<\/p>\n<p>He may struggle to deflect blame for the human and economic costs of zero-Covid\u2019s failure, and control the national narrative, even if public signs of dissent are crushed.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/01\/chinas-president-xi-battles-to-save-face-as-covid-u-turn-weakens-his-grip-on-power\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite public bullishness, overflowing hospitals across the country suggest its  leader may have made a huge miscalculationChina\u2019s leader Xi Jinping told his country it stands on \u201cthe right side of history\u201d in a new year address on Saturday, but exper&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3507,"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":[41,50,1066,914,2458,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-omicron-variant","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\/51600","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\/3507"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51601,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51600\/revisions\/51601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}