{"id":62462,"date":"2024-03-09T22:40:07","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T13:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/09\/china-two-sessions-forum-transparency-beijing-protests"},"modified":"2024-03-09T22:40:07","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T13:40:07","slug":"rare-glimpse-inside-chinas-halls-of-power-as-beijing-hosts-major-political-event-amid-high-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62462","title":{"rendered":"Rare glimpse inside China\u2019s halls of power as Beijing hosts major political event amid high security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Two Sessions\u2019, the country\u2019s most high-profile political forum, is open to the world, but protests in Beijing will meet with a tough response<\/p>\n<p>Across Beijing, security guards stand shivering. Residents of the heavily monitored capital city are used to encountering security guards, members of an urban management force called <em>chengguan<\/em>, and police officers every few blocks. But this week, as China hosts its biggest political meetings of the year, even more muscle has turned up in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>Since Monday, Beijing has been hosting the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/02\/china-two-sessions-explainer-what-is-it\">Two Sessions<\/a>, concurrent meetings of China\u2019s top political consultative body and its rubber-stamp parliament, the National People\u2019s Congress (NPC). The meetings, which are expected to finish on Monday, are China\u2019s most high-profile annual political event, in which thousands of delegates gather inside the Great Hall of the People, an enormous Communist-era building that looms over the western edge of Tiananmen Square.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/09\/china-two-sessions-forum-transparency-beijing-protests\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Two Sessions\u2019, the country\u2019s most high-profile political forum, is open to the world, but protests in Beijing will meet with a tough responseAcross Beijing, security guards stand shivering. Residents of the heavily monitored capital city are used to e&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4154,"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":[41,50,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","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\/62462","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\/4154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62463,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62462\/revisions\/62463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}