{"id":57196,"date":"2023-08-02T21:17:04","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T12:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/02\/xi-jinping-replaces-generals-in-charge-of-chinas-nuclear-arsenal"},"modified":"2023-08-02T21:17:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T12:17:04","slug":"xi-jinping-replaces-generals-in-charge-of-chinas-nuclear-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57196","title":{"rendered":"Xi Jinping replaces generals in charge of China\u2019s nuclear arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leader tightens grip over country\u2019s military leadership with biggest shake-up  in a decade<\/p>\n<p>Two of China\u2019s top generals overseeing its nuclear missiles have been replaced with scant explanation in the biggest shake-up of the country\u2019s military leadership in a decade, underlining Xi Jinping\u2019s commitment to tightening control over the armed forces.<\/p>\n<p>Two men from outside the ranks of the People\u2019s Liberation Army Rocket Force (PLARF) were appointed to head the unit, state media have reported. Wang Houbin, from the navy, was appointed as commander and Xu Xisheng, from the air force, its political commissar \u2013 a Chinese Communist party role of equal grade to military commander.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/02\/xi-jinping-replaces-generals-in-charge-of-chinas-nuclear-arsenal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leader tightens grip over country\u2019s military leadership with biggest shake-up  in a decadeTwo of China\u2019s top generals overseeing its nuclear missiles have been replaced with scant explanation in the biggest shake-up of the country\u2019s military leadership&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3586,"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":[41,50,441,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-nuclear-weapons","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\/57196","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\/3586"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57197,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57196\/revisions\/57197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}