{"id":57768,"date":"2023-08-23T14:17:05","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T05:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/23\/xi-jinping-brics-china-fails-to-give-key-speech"},"modified":"2023-08-23T14:17:05","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T05:17:05","slug":"rumours-swirl-after-xi-jinping-fails-to-give-key-brics-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57768","title":{"rendered":"Rumours swirl after Xi Jinping fails to give key Brics speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Xi was due to address high profile forum in South Africa, but instead his speech was read out by his commerce minister<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s leader, Xi Jinping, unexpectedly skipped a scheduled speech at a key multilateral business forum in South Africa on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Xi arrived in Johannesburg for the Brics summit on Monday evening on what is only his second international trip this year, after visiting Moscow in March. He was met on the airport tarmac by South African president Cyril Ramaphosa.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/23\/xi-jinping-brics-china-fails-to-give-key-speech\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xi was due to address high profile forum in South Africa, but instead his speech was read out by his commerce ministerChina\u2019s leader, Xi Jinping, unexpectedly skipped a scheduled speech at a key multilateral business forum in South Africa on Tuesday.Xi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[2974,50,532,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brics","category-china","category-south-africa","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57768","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57769,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57768\/revisions\/57769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}