{"id":62503,"date":"2024-03-12T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T06:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/12\/xi-jinping-didnt-speak-at-chinas-two-sessions-but-its-clear-who-is-in-charge"},"modified":"2024-03-12T15:45:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T06:45:00","slug":"xi-jinping-didnt-speak-at-chinas-two-sessions-but-its-clear-who-is-in-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62503","title":{"rendered":"Xi Jinping didn\u2019t speak at China\u2019s Two Sessions, but it\u2019s clear who is in charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The meetings showed China\u2019s leader is steering China along a path that is dictated by national security and party control, at the expense of everything else<\/p>\n<p>Xi Jinping didn\u2019t speak at China\u2019s Two Sessions meetings this year, but his presence was still felt.<\/p>\n<p>His name appeared 16 times in the government work report delivered by the Premier Li Qiang, the number two leader, reportedly more than in any other year since Xi took office over a decade ago. Li was clear in noting that credit for China\u2019s achievements in 2023 was owed to Xi and to \u201cthe sound guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era\u201d, Xi\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/oct\/19\/huge-deal-china-era-of-xi-jinping-thought-politics\">ideological doctrine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/12\/xi-jinping-didnt-speak-at-chinas-two-sessions-but-its-clear-who-is-in-charge\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The meetings showed China\u2019s leader is steering China along a path that is dictated by national security and party control, at the expense of everything elseXi Jinping didn\u2019t speak at China\u2019s Two Sessions meetings this year, but his presence was still f&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3706,"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":[50,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","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\/62503","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\/3706"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62504,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62503\/revisions\/62504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}