{"id":74751,"date":"2025-10-15T11:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T02:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/15\/xi-directs-quashing-of-chinese-feminists-even-as-he-praises-advances-at-womens-conference"},"modified":"2025-10-15T11:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T02:00:10","slug":"xi-directs-quashing-of-chinese-feminists-even-as-he-praises-advances-at-womens-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74751","title":{"rendered":"Xi directs quashing of Chinese feminists even as he praises advances at women\u2019s conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese president is behind patriarchal turn in politics with activists silenced for \u2018promoting gender antagonism\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Addressing dignitaries gathered in Beijing on Monday, Xi Jinping praised the \u201chistoric achievements\u201d of women\u2019s rights in China. In the past 30 years, the Chinese president said, maternal mortality rates had dropped by nearly 80%, and women were now participating in the project of national governance with \u201cunprecedented confidence and vigour\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Xi was speaking at the global women\u2019s summit, an event on Monday and Tuesday to mark the 30th anniversary of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/mar\/03\/we-had-all-this-energy-the-landmark-gathering-of-women-that-unnerved-the-chinese-government\">historic UN\u2019s world conference on women<\/a>, which took place in Beijing. It was there in 1995 that Hillary Clinton, the then US first lady, delivered her \u201cwomen\u2019s rights are human rights\u201d speech, lines now often quoted by people in China advocating for women\u2019s rights.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/15\/xi-directs-quashing-of-chinese-feminists-even-as-he-praises-advances-at-womens-conference\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese president is behind patriarchal turn in politics with activists silenced for \u2018promoting gender antagonism\u2019Addressing dignitaries gathered in Beijing on Monday, Xi Jinping praised the \u201chistoric achievements\u201d of women\u2019s rights in China. In the pa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3580,"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":[41,50,237,53,79,281,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-feminism","category-human-rights","category-society","category-women","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\/74751","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\/3580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74752,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74751\/revisions\/74752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}