{"id":2698,"date":"2023-10-27T14:23:16","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T14:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=2698"},"modified":"2023-10-27T14:23:17","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T14:23:17","slug":"former-chinese-premier-li-keqiang-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=2698","title":{"rendered":"Former Chinese Premier Li Keqiang Passes Away"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-10-27-at-8.55.12-AM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2699\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-10-27-at-8.55.12-AM.jpeg 960w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-10-27-at-8.55.12-AM-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-10-27-at-8.55.12-AM-768x432.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>BEIJING: It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Li Keqiang, a distinguished member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the 17th, 18th, and 19th Communist Party of China central committees, and a former Premier. This somber news was reported by CGTN on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Li Keqiang had recently been in Shanghai for a period of rest. Tragically, on October 26, he suffered a sudden heart attack, and despite all rescue efforts, he passed away at 00:10 on October 27. Li Keqiang&#8217;s departure comes at the age of 68, marking a significant loss for China and the international community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING: It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Li Keqiang, a distinguished member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the 17th, 18th, and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2700,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698\/revisions\/2700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}