{"id":60813,"date":"2023-12-29T22:36:37","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T13:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/29\/china-names-former-navy-chief-dong-jun-as-new-defence-minister"},"modified":"2023-12-29T22:36:37","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T13:36:37","slug":"china-names-former-navy-chief-dong-jun-as-new-defence-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60813","title":{"rendered":"China names former navy chief Dong Jun as new defence minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Appointment comes two months after Li Shangfu was ousted from the role amid corruption allegations<\/p>\n<p>China has announced the appointment of a new defence minister, two months after the previous office holder Li Shangfu was stripped from his position without explanation.<\/p>\n<p>The Standing Committee of the National People\u2019s Congress \u2013 China\u2019s de facto legislature \u2013 announced on Friday that Dong Jun, 62, would be the new defence minister. Dong was most recently the chief of China\u2019s navy.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/29\/china-names-former-navy-chief-dong-jun-as-new-defence-minister\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Appointment comes two months after Li Shangfu was ousted from the role amid corruption allegationsChina has announced the appointment of a new defence minister, two months after the previous office holder Li Shangfu was stripped from his position witho&#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":[41,50,74,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-taiwan","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\/60813","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=60813"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60840,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60813\/revisions\/60840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}