{"id":69868,"date":"2025-03-05T13:52:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T04:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/05\/china-two-sessions-meeting-npc-cppcc-political-gathering-beijing"},"modified":"2025-03-05T13:52:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T04:52:03","slug":"explained-what-is-chinas-two-sessions-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69868","title":{"rendered":"Explained: what is China\u2019s Two Sessions meeting?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The annual political gathering begins this week in Beijing, with the economy, tech and Donald Trump\u2019s trade war high on the agenda<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s annual Two Sessions meetings begins this week, with thousands of political and community delegates descending on Beijing from across mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau to ratify legislation, personnel changes and the budget over about two weeks of highly choreographed meetings.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/05\/china-two-sessions-meeting-npc-cppcc-political-gathering-beijing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual political gathering begins this week in Beijing, with the economy, tech and Donald Trump\u2019s trade war high on the agendaChina\u2019s annual Two Sessions meetings begins this week, with thousands of political and community delegates descending on B&#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":[41,50,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69868","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\/69868","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=69868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69869,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69868\/revisions\/69869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}