When China’s foreign minister Qin Gang mysteriously disappeared from public view his fate became the subject of intense speculation and wild rumours. None was true.
His rise was meteoric, his fall equally abrupt. Ever since the summer of 2023, when then-Chinese foreign minister Qin GangWild rumours abounded: He’d been imprisoned. Killed himself. None was true.In fact, Qin is alive but, according to two former US officials, in a position very diminished from his once lofty perch close to Chinese President Xi Jinping.
As a Xi loyalist, Qin was promoted to foreign minister at record speed. At 56, he was tapped not just as minister, but also elevated to Qin’s rapid ascension was perhaps the most prominent among a younger generation of aggressive diplomats often known as “wolf warriors”, after a proudly nationalist Chinese action blockbuster from 2017. He was “an early adopter” of the aggressive style of diplomacy, earning favour with Xi, Johnson said. “This guy was a wolf warrior before it was cool to be a wolf warrior.”
The officials made it clear that the US was not seeking confrontation but would respond if the Chinese took aggressive measures. After Pelosi left, China reacted by firing missiles into the waters around Taiwan, and the White House summoned the ambassador.
It has been unclear what led to Qin’s ouster. A leading theory among political analysts of China is that he had an extramarital affair with a well-known Chinese television journalist, Fu Xiaotian, and the couple had a child out of wedlock born in the US. “The Politburo crediting Qin with the title of ‘comrade’ indicates that he has not been expelled from the party and could be reassigned to a new, lower-ranking role,” said Neil Thomas, an expert on“In the Xi era, similar demotions have been meted out to leading cadres found guilty of relatively minor political infractions,” Thomas said.
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