The sacking of China's foreign minister was likely the result of a 'fierce and terrible internal power struggle' and will 'reflect poorly' on President Xi Jinping, who had rapidly promoted Qin Gang to the role.
that the nation’s top diplomat had been “removed” from his position, with the news coming a month after Mr Qin was last seen in public.
China's foreign minister Qin Gang has been sacked after being absent from public for the past month. Picture: Thomas Peter-Pool/Getty Images “There's a very strong rumour that there's factional disunity at the top of the Chinese government,” Sheridan said, noting there were also strong rumours Mr Qin was having an affair with a news reader from Phoenix TV in Hong Kong.
After a representative of the Chinese Communist Party announced the foreign minister would miss the ASEAN conference for “health reasons” searches for this name on Baidu increased by 28 times, with more than 380,000 searches for"Qin Wang" made each day.
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