{"id":174376,"date":"2023-12-29T19:37:55","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T11:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chinapulse.com\/?p=530172"},"modified":"2023-12-29T19:37:55","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T11:37:55","slug":"china-appoints-a-new-defense-minister-after-months-of-uncertainty-following-sacking-of-predecessor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/2023\/12\/29\/china-appoints-a-new-defense-minister-after-months-of-uncertainty-following-sacking-of-predecessor\/","title":{"rendered":"China appoints a new defense minister after months of uncertainty following sacking of predecessor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press<\/p>\n<p>BEIJING (AP) \u2014 China has appointed a new defense minister after months of uncertainty following the firing of his predecessor for reasons still unexplained.<\/p>\n<p>The official Xinhua News Agency announced former navy commander Dong Jun would serve in the largely ceremonial role, but offered no comment on the reasons for the switch or the current circumstances of previous minister Li Shangfu, who has not been seen or heard from since August.&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>This data comes from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinapulse.com\/\" title=\"ChinaPulse.com provides Media Intelligence and Media Monitoring for China News\" >ChinaPulse.com media intelligence and smart news insights monitoring platform<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press<br \/>\nBEIJING (AP) \u2014 China has appointed a new defense minister after months of uncertainty following the firing of his predecessor for reasons still unexplained.<br \/>\nThe official Xinhua News Agency announced former navy commander Dong Jun w&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,144,213,194,445],"tags":[10727,2240,10322,10336],"class_list":["post-174376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beijing","category-china","category-china-news","category-news-chinese-law","category-xinhua","tag-li-shangfu","tag-military","tag-navy","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174376"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174377,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174376\/revisions\/174377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}