{"id":28182,"date":"2019-01-07T18:23:10","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T18:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28182"},"modified":"2019-01-07T18:23:10","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T18:23:10","slug":"storm-clouds-gathering-for-chinas-xi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28182","title":{"rendered":"Storm clouds gathering for China&#8217;s Xi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Hong Kong (CNN)<\/cite>When Xi Jinping ascended the stage in the Great Hall of the People in March, officially the most powerful Chinese leader since Mao Zedong, the country&#8217;s future seemed his to shape.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Just months earlier, he had been re-appointed General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, the country&#8217;s most powerful position. Now he had begun a second term as the nation&#8217;s president and secured the scrapping of term limits on the post  &#8212; effectively allowing him to rule for life. Just two members of the National People&#8217;s Congress voted against the change, out of 2,980.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Nine months later however, storm clouds are gathering. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong (CNN)When Xi Jinping ascended the stage in the Great Hall of the People in March, officially the most powerful Chinese leader since Mao Zedong, the country&#8217;s future seemed his to shape.Just months earlier, he had been re-appointed General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, the country&#8217;s most powerful position. Now he had begun&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":28183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}