{"id":53313,"date":"2023-03-11T10:01:43","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T01:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/11\/a-defeated-person-sidelined-by-xi-chinas-li-keqiang-bows-out-as-premier"},"modified":"2023-03-11T10:01:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T01:01:43","slug":"a-defeated-person-sidelined-by-xi-chinas-li-keqiang-bows-out-as-premier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53313","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A defeated person\u2019: sidelined by Xi, China\u2019s Li Keqiang bows out as premier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hopes that Li would be a liberal reformer were curbed by Xi Jinping as the president became more and more powerful<\/p>\n<p>In a farewell speech after serving 10 years as China\u2019s number two leader, the premier, Li Keqiang, had a cryptic message for his staff: \u201cWhile people work, heaven watches. Heaven has eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His unusually candid words, seen in a video clip on social media but unreported by official media, stoked speculation about whether he was making a veiled attack on President Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/11\/a-defeated-person-sidelined-by-xi-chinas-li-keqiang-bows-out-as-premier\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hopes that Li would be a liberal reformer were curbed by Xi Jinping as the president became more and more powerfulIn a farewell speech after serving 10 years as China\u2019s number two leader, the premier, Li Keqiang, had a cryptic message for his staff: \u201cW&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":411,"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":[41,50,892,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-li-keqiang","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\/53313","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\/411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53314,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53313\/revisions\/53314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}