{"id":158782,"date":"2026-10-14T12:13:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T12:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=158782"},"modified":"2026-10-14T12:13:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T12:13:13","slug":"huang-qifan-chinas-political-tumbler-falls-after-a-decade-of-close-corruption-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=158782","title":{"rendered":"Huang Qifan, China\u2019s political tumbler, falls after a decade of close corruption calls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostFor a decade, former Chongqing mayor Huang Qifan stood out as a political survivor while colleague after close colleague fell in China\u2019s far-reaching anti-corruption campaign.<br \/>\nThroughout that time, including his seven years as the megacity\u2019s mayor from 2009 to 2016, Huang was seen as a \u201ctumbler\u201d in Chinese politics \u2013 a weighted doll that wobbles but never falls over.<br \/>\nThe nickname was well-deserved \u2013 he served under six municipal Communist Party secretaries, watching two of them \u2013 Bo Xilai and&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3370903\/huang-qifan-chinas-political-tumbler-falls-after-decade-close-corruption-calls?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 PostFor a decade, former Chongqing mayor Huang Qifan stood out as a political survivor while colleague after close colleague fell in China\u2019s far-reaching anti-corruption&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\/158782"}],"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=158782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}