{"id":68348,"date":"2024-12-16T15:42:06","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T06:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/16\/xi-jinping-communist-party-corruption-crackdown"},"modified":"2024-12-16T15:42:06","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T06:42:06","slug":"xi-jinping-urges-party-to-turn-knife-inward-to-tackle-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68348","title":{"rendered":"Xi Jinping urges party to \u2018turn knife inward\u2019 to tackle corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sweeping corruption crackdown is hallmark of Chinese president\u2019s leadership, but his party remains plagued by graft, particularly within its armed forces<\/p>\n<p>Chinese President Xi Jinping has said internal divisions within the ruling Communist party were inevitable but that it must \u201cturn the knife inward\u201d to instil discipline, in a newly disclosed call to root out corrupt officials.<\/p>\n<p>The remarks were made at a meeting of the anti-graft watchdog in January, but only published in the party\u2019s flagship policy journal Qiushi on Monday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/16\/xi-jinping-communist-party-corruption-crackdown\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweeping corruption crackdown is hallmark of Chinese president\u2019s leadership, but his party remains plagued by graft, particularly within its armed forcesChinese President Xi Jinping has said internal divisions within the ruling Communist party were ine&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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-68348","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\/68348","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68349,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68348\/revisions\/68349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}