{"id":7672,"date":"2018-03-11T21:00:31","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T21:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=7672"},"modified":"2018-03-11T21:00:31","modified_gmt":"2018-03-11T21:00:31","slug":"vote-paves-way-for-president-xi-for-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/vote-paves-way-for-president-xi-for-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote paves way for President Xi for life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7673\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/China.jpg\" alt=\"China\" width=\"284\" height=\"177\" \/>China\u2019s National People\u2019s Congress on Sunday passed a measure lifting term limits for the nation\u2019s president and vice president.<br \/>\nThe change to the country\u2019s Constitution allows the two leaders to serve at their posts indefinitely.<br \/>\nThe move paves the way for China\u2019s current President Xi Jinping to stay in office after 2023, when &#8212; under the old rules &#8212; his term was due to end. Xi took office in March 2013.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/vote-paves-way-for-president-xi-for-life\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s National People\u2019s Congress on Sunday passed a measure lifting term limits for the nation\u2019s president and vice president. The change to the country\u2019s Constitution allows the two leaders to serve at their posts indefinitely. The move paves the way for China\u2019s current President Xi Jinping to stay in office after 2023, when &#8212; under &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7674,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7672\/revisions\/7674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}