{"id":76558,"date":"2026-03-03T10:44:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T01:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/03\/china-two-sessions-president-xi-economy-defence-technology"},"modified":"2026-03-03T20:06:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T11:06:59","slug":"chinas-two-sessions-to-reveal-xis-economic-and-defence-plans-as-military-purge-casts-shadow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76558","title":{"rendered":"More generals purged as delegates gather for China\u2019s Two Sessions event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spectre of military upheaval will hang over annual meetings where Beijing\u2019s five-year plan will be launched<\/p>\n<p>The standing committee of China\u2019s top political advisory body has voted to remove three generals from its ranks as a sweeping purge of the military continues before this week\u2019s annual Two Sessions gathering.<\/p>\n<p>The advisory body will meet on Wednesday, while China\u2019s legislature, the National People\u2019s Congress (NPC) \u2013 which removed nine generals last week \u2013 will start its annual session on Thursday. Collectively the concurrent meetings are referred to as Two Sessions, one of the most important events in China\u2019s political calendar when thousands of delegates arrive in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/03\/china-two-sessions-president-xi-economy-defence-technology\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spectre of military upheaval will hang over annual meetings where Beijing\u2019s five-year plan will be launchedThe standing committee of China\u2019s top political advisory body has voted to remove three generals from its ranks as a sweeping purge of the milita&#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":[41,50,556,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-chinese-economy","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\/76558","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=76558"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76560,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76558\/revisions\/76560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}