{"id":53290,"date":"2023-03-10T12:07:32","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T03:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/10\/xi-jinping-handed-unprecedented-third-term-as-chinas-president"},"modified":"2023-03-10T18:05:07","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T09:05:07","slug":"xi-jinping-handed-unprecedented-third-term-as-chinas-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53290","title":{"rendered":"Xi Jinping handed unprecedented third term as China\u2019s president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coronation  sets up Xi, who has overseen consolidation of power, to become modern China\u2019s longest-serving head of state<\/p>\n<p>Xi Jinping has been handed an unprecedented third term as president, capping an ascent in which he has become China\u2019s most powerful leader in generations.<\/p>\n<p>In a carefully choreographed ceremony in Beijing, Xi held up his right fist and placed his left hand on a red leather copy of China\u2019s constitution. In the oath \u2013 beamed live on state television across China \u2013 he vowed to \u201cbuild a prosperous, strong, democratic, civilised, harmonious and great modern socialist country\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/10\/xi-jinping-handed-unprecedented-third-term-as-chinas-president\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coronation  sets up Xi, who has overseen consolidation of power, to become modern China\u2019s longest-serving head of stateXi Jinping has been handed an unprecedented third term as president, capping an ascent in which he has become China\u2019s most powerful l&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2742,"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":[41,50,556,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-chinese-economy","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\/53290","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\/2742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53290"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53299,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53290\/revisions\/53299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}