{"id":42687,"date":"2020-05-21T14:22:35","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T14:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=42687"},"modified":"2020-05-21T14:22:35","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T14:22:35","slug":"china-congress-leaders-face-unprecedented-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=42687","title":{"rendered":"China congress: Leaders face unprecedented pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"67\">\n<p>Chinese leaders observed a minute of silence for coronavirus victims at the start of its biggest political gathering of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The opening session of China&#8217;s top political advisory body started one day before the National People&#8217;s Congress.<\/p>\n<p>The government is facing unprecedented pressure over its handling of the pandemic, tensions with the United States and a slowing economy hit hard by COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Katrina Yu reports from Beijing on that and other pressures faced by China&#8217;s leaders.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese leaders observed a minute of silence for coronavirus victims at the start of its biggest political gathering of the year. The opening session of China&#8217;s top political advisory body started one day before the National People&#8217;s Congress. The government is facing unprecedented pressure over its handling of the pandemic, tensions with the United States&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":42688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42687","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=42687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}