{"id":31206,"date":"2012-12-02T16:36:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-02T16:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=31206 "},"modified":"2012-12-02T16:36:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-02T16:36:00","slug":"31206-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=31206","title":{"rendered":"Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng appeals to new Communist Party leader for reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong style=\"color: #2d2d2d; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Lucida Grande', 'Segoe UI', Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2012\/12\/01\/singapore-to-deport-2-chinese-bus-drivers-involved-in-city-state-first-strike\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #034af3; text-decoration: initial;\">&nbsp;<\/a><\/strong>Published December 02, 2012<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>BEIJING &#8211; &nbsp;Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng is appealing to the newly named head of the ruling Communist Party to carry out political reforms to avoid violence.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>In a taped statement from exile in New York released Sunday, Chen said Xi Jinping needs to promote change to assuage anger against political oppression.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Just days earlier, Chen&#8217;s nephew was sentenced to three years in prison for assault, in what was seen as retaliation by local officials angered by Chen&#8217;s daring escape from house arrest in April. Chen, who is blind, fled to the U.S. Embassy and set off a diplomatic tussle between Beijing and Washington that embarrassed the central government.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Xi was named party chief last month and will take over as state president next month.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<span style=\"color: #2d2d2d; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Lucida Grande', 'Segoe UI', Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;\">Continue reading the<\/span><strong style=\"color: #2d2d2d; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Lucida Grande', 'Segoe UI', Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2012\/12\/02\/chinese-legal-activist-chen-guangcheng-appeals-to-new-communist-party-leader\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #034af3; text-decoration: initial;\">&nbsp;original article.&nbsp;<\/a><\/strong><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;div&gt;Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng is appealing to the newly named head of the ruling Communist Party to carry out political reforms to avoid violence.&lt;\/div&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ChinaHumanRights","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}