{"id":66941,"date":"2024-09-25T14:50:34","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T05:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/25\/china-economist-zhu-hengpeng-disappearance-xi-jinping-wechat-comments"},"modified":"2024-09-25T14:50:34","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T05:50:34","slug":"top-chinese-economist-disappears-after-criticising-xi-jinping-in-private-chat-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66941","title":{"rendered":"Top Chinese economist disappears after criticising Xi Jinping in private chat \u2013 report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zhu Hengpeng, who worked for an influential government thinktank, has reportedly not been seen in public since making disparaging remarks on WeChat<\/p>\n<p>A leading Chinese economist at a government thinktank has reportedly disappeared after being disciplined for criticising Xi Jinping in a private chat group.<\/p>\n<p>Zhu Hengpeng, 55, is believed to have made disparaging remarks about China\u2019s economy, and potentially about the Chinese leader specifically, in a private WeChat group. Zhu was subsequently detained in April and put under investigation, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/china\/top-economist-in-china-vanishes-after-private-wechat-comments-50dac0b1\">according to the Wall Street Journal<\/a> which cited anonymous sources.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/25\/china-economist-zhu-hengpeng-disappearance-xi-jinping-wechat-comments\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zhu Hengpeng, who worked for an influential government thinktank, has reportedly not been seen in public since making disparaging remarks on WeChatA leading Chinese economist at a government thinktank has reportedly disappeared after being disciplined &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[41,50,474,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-surveillance","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\/66941","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66942,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66941\/revisions\/66942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}