{"id":74561,"date":"2025-10-01T22:01:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T13:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/01\/china-replaces-liu-jianchao-high-level-diplomat-after-reported-detention"},"modified":"2025-10-01T22:01:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T13:01:25","slug":"china-replaces-high-level-diplomat-after-reported-detention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74561","title":{"rendered":"China replaces high-level diplomat after reported detention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liu Jianchao, previously tipped to be next foreign minister, has not been seen publicly in months<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s ruling Communist party (CCP) has replaced the head of its powerful international department two months after he disappeared from public life.<\/p>\n<p>Liu Jianchao, an influential official who had been widely tipped to be the next foreign minister, was reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/11\/liu-jianchao-china-diplomat-detained-beijing\">detained<\/a> while returning from an overseas trip in late July. He has not been seen publicly since.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/01\/china-replaces-liu-jianchao-high-level-diplomat-after-reported-detention\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liu Jianchao, previously tipped to be next foreign minister, has not been seen publicly in monthsChina\u2019s ruling Communist party (CCP) has replaced the head of its powerful international department two months after he disappeared from public life.Liu Ji&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3586,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74561","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\/3586"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74562,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74561\/revisions\/74562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}