{"id":58398,"date":"2023-09-15T15:27:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T06:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/15\/china-defence-minister-li-shangfu-missing"},"modified":"2023-09-15T21:54:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T12:54:43","slug":"li-shangfu-speculation-grows-over-fate-of-chinas-missing-defence-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58398","title":{"rendered":"Li Shangfu: speculation grows over fate of China\u2019s missing defence minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Li Shangfu, who has not been seen for nearly three weeks, is under house arrest, claims US ambassador to Japan<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s defence minister has not been seen in almost three weeks, amid reports that he is under investigation, in the latest case of a senior Communist party official to disappear from public view.<\/p>\n<p>Gen Li Shangfu was last seen on 29 August when he gave a speech to the China-Africa peace and security forum. His last overseas trip was to Moscow and Minsk in mid-August, where he met Russian officials on the sidelines of a security conference, and with the Belarusian president, Alexander Lukashenko.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/15\/china-defence-minister-li-shangfu-missing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Li Shangfu, who has not been seen for nearly three weeks, is under house arrest, claims US ambassador to JapanChina\u2019s defence minister has not been seen in almost three weeks, amid reports that he is under investigation, in the latest case of a senior &#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":[41,50,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58398","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=58398"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58413,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58398\/revisions\/58413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}