{"id":22354,"date":"2010-10-14T15:15:38","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T15:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/a_letter_from_chinese_communist_party_elders_end_censorship\/"},"modified":"2010-10-14T15:15:38","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T15:15:38","slug":"a_letter_from_chinese_communist_party_elders_end_censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22354","title":{"rendered":"A Letter from Chinese Communist Party Elders: End Censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An open letter from Chinese Communist Party elders calling for an end to censorship is fueling speculation among China watchers of a possible showdown between reformers and conservatives over the country\u2019s political future.<\/p>\n<p>Signed by Li Rui, Mao Zedong\u2019s former secretary and a known reformist, and 22 others, the letter offers unusually blunt criticism of Beijing\u2019s efforts to stifle the free flow of information and comes as Party leaders gather in the capital for a major policy meeting later this week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/chinarealtime\/2010\/10\/13\/letter-from-party-elders-end-censorship\">Read it all and amke sure to follow the link to the English translation of the full letter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An open letter from Chinese Communist Party elders calling for an end to censorship is fueling speculation among China watchers of a possible showdown between reformers and conservatives over the country\u2019s political future. Signed by Li Rui, Mao Zedong\u2019s former<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22354\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,201,502,114,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-asia","category-china","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}