{"id":62328,"date":"2024-03-04T16:44:45","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T07:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/04\/china-two-sessions-premier-li-qiang-will-not-speak-press-conference-npc-cppcc"},"modified":"2024-03-04T16:44:45","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T07:44:45","slug":"china-two-sessions-premier-li-qiang-will-not-speak-to-press-in-break-with-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62328","title":{"rendered":"China Two Sessions: premier Li Qiang will not speak to press in break with tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Annual appearances were rare opportunity for foreign media to engage with high-ranking Chinese officials<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s leading economics official, premier Li Qiang, will not address the press at the country\u2019s major annual political gathering in Beijing, in a break with tradition.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/02\/intrigue-possible-reshuffles-china-parliament-convenes\">The Two Sessions<\/a> has started against a backdrop of major economic headwinds, decreasing transparency on government indicators, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/15\/china-holds-citizen-on-spying-charges-after-she-did-admin-work-for-us-company\">growing concern among international business and investors.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/04\/china-two-sessions-premier-li-qiang-will-not-speak-press-conference-npc-cppcc\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annual appearances were rare opportunity for foreign media to engage with high-ranking Chinese officialsChina\u2019s leading economics official, premier Li Qiang, will not address the press at the country\u2019s major annual political gathering in Beijing, in a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3767,"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-62328","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\/62328","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\/3767"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62329,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62328\/revisions\/62329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}