{"id":155993,"date":"2026-08-12T16:11:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T16:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=155993"},"modified":"2026-08-12T16:11:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T16:11:47","slug":"zhu-rongji-reformer-who-led-chinas-economic-transformation-through-minefield-or-abyss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=155993","title":{"rendered":"Zhu Rongji: reformer who led China\u2019s economic transformation through \u2018minefield or abyss\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning Post\u201cRegardless of what lies ahead \u2013 be it a minefield or a deep abyss \u2013 I will forge ahead unswervingly, dedicating my entire life and energy to the country until my dying day.\u201d<br \/>\nThose words, spoken at the dawn of his premiership, came to define Zhu Rongji, China\u2019s towering economic reformer who died in Beijing on Wednesday. He was 97.<br \/>\nHis remarks at a press conference in 1998 came as China was undertaking sweeping state-owned enterprise (SOE) reforms that caused widespread job losses, even as it&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3363824\/zhu-rongji-reformer-who-led-chinas-economic-transformation-through-minefield-or-abyss?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning Post\u201cRegardless of what lies ahead \u2013 be it a minefield or a deep abyss \u2013 I will forge ahead unswervingly, dedicating my entire life&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155993"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}