In what countries can a Secretary of State literally disappear without anyone being able to ask questions? One thinks of outrageous dictatorships, like North Korea under the Kim dynasty, or Syria of the Assad family. Not the second economic and military power in the world, which has veto power in the United Nations, and which presents its political and social model to the world as an alternative to a West considered in decline. I’m talking about China under Xi Jinping, which is going through one of those political eclipses from another time – a time when leaders, through purges, disappeared from pictures with Grand Helmsman Mao Zedong, “manually”Well, that was before Photoshop…
Since June 25, no one has seen the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China, Qin Gang. It was the early days, when the newest head of diplomacy since BC
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