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...Letter in response to this report:Reading the runes on China’s central bank boss / From Zhao Xiaoou, Shanghai, China...
...Markets have since been steadied by Chinese Premier Li Qiang’s promise of “forceful” state support to halt the sell-off....
...Premier Li Qiang also did not hold a briefing at the conclusion of the rubber-stamp parliament’s annual meeting this month....
...Wu Guoguang, who worked as an adviser to former Chinese premier Zhao Ziyang, wrote in a recent essay published by the China Leadership Monitor, a US research group, that a “new era of factional politics...
...The parliament also confirmed Zhao Leji, a close ally of Xi, as its new chair....
...The Spanish leader is also due to meet Li Qiang, China’s new premier, and Zhao Leji, chair of the parliament....
...Senior government regulators and policymakers are expected to be there, including possibly Li Qiang, Xi Jinping’s number two and the head of China’s cabinet....
...Li Qiang presided over mainland China’s worst Covid-19 outbreak in March....
...In Qinghai, he worked with Zhao Leji, current head of the party’s powerful anti-corruption watchdog, eventually becoming local party boss....
...Mr Hua and Li Zhao, one of his missing colleagues, had both recently been prevented from leaving the country, according to Li Qiang....
...asks Zhao Chu, a political analyst and columnist....
...“The central government’s bottom line will not change,” says Wu Qiang, a political-science professor at Beijing’s elite Tsinghua University....
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