{"id":56952,"date":"2023-07-25T21:34:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T12:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/25\/qin-gang-china-says-foreign-minister-has-been-replaced"},"modified":"2023-07-26T00:04:42","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T15:04:42","slug":"still-no-sign-of-qin-gang-as-china-says-foreign-minister-has-been-replaced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56952","title":{"rendered":"Still no sign of Qin Gang as China says foreign minister has been replaced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing announces former US ambassador has been removed from office after speculation about his whereabouts<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s foreign minister, Qin Gang, who has not been seen in public for almost a month amid a mysterious absence, has been removed from office and replaced by his predecessor, Wang Yi, China\u2019s top legislative body has announced.<\/p>\n<p>The sudden calling of a special meeting Standing Committee of the National People\u2019s Congress (NPCSC) with one day\u2019s notice, had fuelled speculation there may be answers about the disappearance of Qin, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/18\/where-is-qin-gang-chinas-foreign-minister-has-not-been-seen-in-public-for-three-weeks\">last seen in public almost a month ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/25\/qin-gang-china-says-foreign-minister-has-been-replaced\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing announces former US ambassador has been removed from office after speculation about his whereaboutsChina\u2019s foreign minister, Qin Gang, who has not been seen in public for almost a month amid a mysterious absence, has been removed from office an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,45,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-us-foreign-policy","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56952"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56966,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56952\/revisions\/56966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}