Hints and tips:
...Former foreign minister Qin Gang was absent from public commitments for a month before he was replaced by his predecessor, Wang Yi, last week....
...Two former CMC vice-chairs, Xu Caihou and Guo Boxiong, faced prosecution for corruption in 2014....
...a deranged Charleston for the nightclub orgy (cue: blond hoochie-coochie dancer with full beard), a spectral vision scene in an opium den and a vicious punch-up fuelled by the pogo pulse of Wire’s “12 XU...
...China had previously rebuffed requests for Lloyd Austin, US defence secretary, to meet General Xu Qiliang, China’s most senior military official....
...“The US is faced with increasing downward pressure on its economy and has limited room for [monetary] policy adjustment,” says Xu Hongcai, deputy director of State Council think-tank....
...Xu Luying, another spokesperson for the department, said the Hong Kong government had “conscientiously reflected” on “inadequacies” in the extradition bill drafting process....
...Instead Ms Nagra decided to join The Coven Girl Gang, an online community launched in 2018 for women who run their own businesses or freelance....
...Established in 2017, Buzao is an offshoot of Bentu, a studio co-founded by Chen Xingyu, Xu Gang, Peng Zeng and Chen Xingguang in 2011....
...“Market rates and loan yields have been moving higher, so we believe deposit costs will catch up one way or another,” wrote Richard Xu, China financials analyst at Morgan Stanley in Hong Kong....
...“Making Chinese auto brands go global is my responsibility as a Chinese automaker,” added Xu Heyi, chairman of BAIC, one of China’s big state carmakers and a big electric vehicle manufacturer....
...Late 1970s: Deng Xiaoping deposes the Gang of Four and comes to power, aided by the PLA....
...downfall of Bo and Gu, the biggest political scandal in China since the trial of the Gang of Four more than three decades ago....
...Xu Caihou, the most senior military officer to be ensnared, died this weekend of bladder cancer....
...Before he was made president in 1989, Mr Jiang was Communist Party boss of Shanghai and his still-powerful faction is known as the “Shanghai Gang”....
...“We are co-ordinating with all sides to provide conditions for the safe evacuation of Chinese personnel,” Qin Gang, foreign ministry spokesman, told reporters in Beijing on Friday....
...Xu Bo has worked in a construction gang in Beijing for four years, helping build the city apartments and skyscrapers that symbolise China’s urban transformation....
...Mr Xu could go on trial as early as this week....
...the “princeling” son of Bo Yibo, a founding father of the People’s Republic of China, makes Bo Xilai the most important political figure to face public trial in China since 1980, when Madame Mao and the “Gang...
...The new chief of the China Securities Regulatory Commission is Xiao Gang, former chairman of the Bank of China....
...Xiao Gang, China’s securities regulator since March, has been on a crusade to clean up the industry....
...Baby Come Home helps families first by publishing missing profiles on the site – Xu’s story was viewed 100,000 times....
...In one cyber encounter, Xu Shaohua, a provincial official, “met” a female petitioner in the industrial city of Dongguan who complained that the highway from Shenzhen to Guangzhou that runs past her house...
...“Crucially, he was one of the first dealers to promote contemporary Chinese art in the 1980s and 1990s, backing big-name artists such as Xu Bing and Zhang Xiaogang before they sold for stratospheric prices...
...Xu Zhiyong, a respected law professor and co-founder of the Open Constitution Initiative, a legal aid non-governmental body that was closed down last month, has been detained and is incommunicado....
...“Hide the brightness, nourish obscurity,” he told colleagues – or other countries will feel threatened and gang up to block China’s rise....
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