{"id":76053,"date":"2026-01-23T02:20:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T17:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/22\/peru-president-chinese-businessmen-secret-meeting"},"modified":"2026-01-23T02:20:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T17:20:56","slug":"perus-interim-president-embroiled-in-scandal-over-secret-meetings-with-chinese-businessmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76053","title":{"rendered":"Peru\u2019s interim president embroiled in scandal over secret meetings with Chinese businessmen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition lawmakers say they will seek to impeach Jos\u00e9 Jer\u00ed over undisclosed meetings in Lima\u2019s Chinatown<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/peru\">Peru<\/a>\u2019s interim president, Jos\u00e9 Jer\u00ed, has denied lying to the country and claimed he was the victim of a plot to discredit him amid a growing political scandal over his secretive meetings with Chinese businessmen.<\/p>\n<p>Jer\u00ed, 39, who took office in October after his predecessor Dina Boluarte was forced out, told a congressional oversight committee on Wednesday that he had been the target of a smear campaign designed to destabilise the country ahead of elections in April.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/22\/peru-president-chinese-businessmen-secret-meeting\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition lawmakers say they will seek to impeach Jos\u00e9 Jer\u00ed over undisclosed meetings in Lima\u2019s ChinatownPeru\u2019s interim president, Jos\u00e9 Jer\u00ed, has denied lying to the country and claimed he was the victim of a plot to discredit him amid a growing polit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1577,"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":[246,41,50,1258,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-peru","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\/76053","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\/1577"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76054,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76053\/revisions\/76054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}