{"id":59522,"date":"2023-10-31T04:04:32","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T19:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/30\/china-seeks-to-stifle-public-grief-for-former-premier-li-keqiang"},"modified":"2023-10-31T04:04:32","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T19:04:32","slug":"china-seeks-to-stifle-public-grief-for-former-premier-li-keqiang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59522","title":{"rendered":"China seeks to stifle public grief for former premier Li Keqiang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Censorship targets \u2018overly effusive\u2019 comments, gatherings or references to Li\u2019s views on economic reform<\/p>\n<p>Public tributes to China\u2019s former premier Li Keqiang, who died on Friday, are being strictly controlled as the government seeks to prevent a mass outpouring of grief that could lead to social unrest.<\/p>\n<p>Li <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/27\/li-keqiang-former-premier-of-china-dies-aged-68-state-media#:~:text=China's%20former%20premier%2C%20Li%20Keqiang,to%20China's%20Xinhua%20news%20agency.\">suffered a sudden heart attack <\/a>in Shanghai and died in the early hours of Friday, according to Xinhua news agency.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/30\/china-seeks-to-stifle-public-grief-for-former-premier-li-keqiang\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Censorship targets \u2018overly effusive\u2019 comments, gatherings or references to Li\u2019s views on economic reformPublic tributes to China\u2019s former premier Li Keqiang, who died on Friday, are being strictly controlled as the government seeks to prevent a mass ou&#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":[41,458,50,892,54,79,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-censorship","category-china","category-li-keqiang","category-press-freedom","category-society","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\/59522","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=59522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59523,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59522\/revisions\/59523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}