{"id":59393,"date":"2023-10-25T00:43:32","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T15:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/24\/china-removes-two-key-figures-from-office-in-major-leadership-reshuffle-li-shangfu-qin-gang"},"modified":"2023-10-25T00:43:32","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T15:43:32","slug":"china-sacks-defence-minister-and-removes-ex-foreign-minister-from-cabinet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59393","title":{"rendered":"China sacks defence minister and removes ex-foreign minister from cabinet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defence minister, Li Shangfu, sacked and ex-foreign minister Qin Gang removed from cabinet<\/p>\n<p>China has removed the defence minister, Li Shangfu, and ousted ex-foreign minister Qin Gang from its cabinet, according to state media, in a major reshuffle of top leadership.<\/p>\n<p>The news came after months of speculation about the country\u2019s cabinet, including confusion over the abrupt removal of Qin from office in July without explanation and the months-long absence of Li from public view.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/24\/china-removes-two-key-figures-from-office-in-major-leadership-reshuffle-li-shangfu-qin-gang\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defence minister, Li Shangfu, sacked and ex-foreign minister Qin Gang removed from cabinetChina has removed the defence minister, Li Shangfu, and ousted ex-foreign minister Qin Gang from its cabinet, according to state media, in a major reshuffle of to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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-59393","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\/59393","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59394,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59393\/revisions\/59394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}