{"id":156450,"date":"2026-08-24T01:30:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T01:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=156450"},"modified":"2026-08-24T01:30:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T01:30:06","slug":"remembering-zhu-rongji-and-understanding-his-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=156450","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Zhu Rongji and understanding his legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning Post\u201cHistory doesn\u2019t repeat itself but it often rhymes.\u201d This famous quote, widely attributed to Mark Twain, keeps playing in my mind as China mourns the death of former premier Zhu Rongji and reflects on his legacy.<br \/>\nIt was early afternoon on August 12 when I received a message from a friend on the mainland that made my heart sink: \u201cOur much-respected Premier Zhu left us this morning!\u201d<br \/>\nAs we anxiously waited for the official confirmation that would launch us into a frantically busy news day, my mind&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/hong-kong-opinion\/article\/3364730\/remembering-zhu-rongji-and-understanding-his-legacy?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\u201cHistory doesn\u2019t repeat itself but it often rhymes.\u201d This famous quote, widely attributed to Mark Twain, keeps playing in my mind as China mourns&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\/156450"}],"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=156450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}