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...“First, Foreign Minister Qin Gang goes missing, then the Rocket Force commanders go missing, and now Defence Minister Li Shangfu hasn’t been seen in public for two weeks,” he wrote with the hashtag #MysteryInBeijingBuilding...
...Beijing removed Qin Gang as foreign minister in July, after the diplomat had been absent from public view for a month....
...US ambassador Nicholas Burns met China’s commerce minister Wang Wentao on Thursday, following talks with foreign minister Qin Gang on Monday....
...But she was also blamed for stoking the excesses of the Cultural Revolution as part of the “Gang of Four” who controlled the Communist party during the turmoil....
...China’s former foreign minister and ambassador to the US, Qin Gang, mysteriously disappeared from public view in June and was officially replaced as minister a month later....
...Though newcomers Li and Chien do solid work, the Sun brothers are ultimately eclipsed by the inscrutable, self-possessed matriarch played with wit and poise by Yeoh....
...The standing committee of the National People’s Congress, the country’s rubber stamp parliament, on Tuesday also stripped former foreign minister Qin Gang of his rank as state councillor, or cabinet member...
...Qin Gang, who was replaced as foreign minister in July following a similar disappearance, was also formally stripped of his rank as a member of the State Council....
...Li was the second cabinet minister to be ousted this year, after Qin Gang, Xi’s former foreign minister, was replaced by his predecessor Wang Yi in July following a month-long absence from public commitments...
...Li urged the officials in attendance, including vice-premiers Liu He and Han Zheng and central bank governor Yi Gang, to help companies resume production....
...US officials told the Financial Times they believed Li had been stripped of his duties in a pattern that seemed to follow that of China’s former foreign minister, Qin Gang, who mysteriously disappeared in...
...Tuesday’s remarks by Chinese foreign minister Qin Gang were made against a backdrop of tensions that have brought US-China ties to their lowest point in decades....
...The headlines China’s defence minister Li Shangfu is under investigation by Beijing according to US intelligence....
...Chinese defence minister Li Shangfu has also disappeared from public sight. US officials this week told the Financial Times that Li was being investigated for corruption and had been removed....
...Need to know: global economy China set an ambitious target for economic growth of 5 per cent this year as premier Li Qiang promised to tackle the property crisis, high local debt and troublesome deflation...
...Broader upheaval in the Chinese government this year have included the removal of foreign minister Qin Gang, as well as what US officials believe is a decision to strip defence minister Li Shangfu of his...
...In May, China’s foreign minister Qin Gang warned his German counterpart that if the EU “seeks to decouple from China in the name of ‘de-risking’, it will decouple from opportunities, co-operation, stability...
...Former foreign minister Qin Gang was absent from public commitments for a month before he was replaced by his predecessor, Wang Yi, last week....
...Earlier on Friday, she met Liu and Yi Gang, the outgoing governor of the People’s Bank of China. “Yellen does not know her counterparts who oversee Chinese economic policy,” said Kennedy....
...China’s defence minister, Li Shangfu, has also disappeared from public sight....
...Tang was afraid of getting caught up in the politics between rival gangs but didn’t know how to refuse. In the end, he confessed everything to the factory manager....
...China’s former foreign minister Qin Gang was absent from public commitments for a month before he was replaced by his predecessor, Wang Yi, last week....
...In a frosty meeting with his counterpart in Berlin on Tuesday, China’s foreign minister Qin Gang threatened countermeasures if the EU continued with a proposal to impose sanctions on Chinese companies allegedly...
...Intrigue also hangs over this year’s retreat following the unexplained absence and removal of Xi favourite Qin Gang from the post of foreign minister last month, as well as corruption probes into China’s...
...Additional reporting by Gloria Li and William Langley in Hong Kong...
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