{"id":53351,"date":"2023-03-13T10:59:55","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T01:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/13\/xi-jinping-taiwan-independence-china-parliament-national-peoples-congress"},"modified":"2023-03-13T13:45:50","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T04:45:50","slug":"xi-jinping-vows-to-oppose-taiwan-independence-in-closing-speech-of-china-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53351","title":{"rendered":"Xi Jinping vows to oppose Taiwan \u2018pro-independence\u2019 influences as third term begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese president lays out priorities, including \u2018reunification\u2019 with island that Communist party has never ruled, as National People\u2019s Congress ends<\/p>\n<p>Xi Jinping has stressed the need to oppose \u201cpro-independence\u201d influences in Taiwan, as he closed the National People\u2019s Congress (NPC) after a week in which the rubber-stamp parliament handed China\u2019s president an unprecedented third presidential term, and key roles at the top of the government were reshuffled.<\/p>\n<p>Xi closed the session with a speech to the gathered delegates. On Friday he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/10\/xi-jinping-handed-unprecedented-third-term-as-chinas-president\">secured his place as China\u2019s most powerful leader in generations<\/a> in a carefully choreographed ceremony in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/13\/xi-jinping-taiwan-independence-china-parliament-national-peoples-congress\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese president lays out priorities, including \u2018reunification\u2019 with island that Communist party has never ruled, as National People\u2019s Congress endsXi Jinping has stressed the need to oppose \u201cpro-independence\u201d influences in Taiwan, as he closed the Na&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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":[50,556,892,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-chinese-economy","category-li-keqiang","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\/53351","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53351"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53366,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53351\/revisions\/53366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}