{"id":56962,"date":"2023-07-26T02:29:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T17:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/25\/the-growing-list-of-chinese-elites-who-disappear-but-later-resurface-subdued"},"modified":"2023-07-26T02:29:01","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T17:29:01","slug":"the-growing-list-of-chinese-elites-who-disappear-but-later-resurface-subdued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56962","title":{"rendered":"The growing list of Chinese elites who disappear but later resurface subdued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign minister Qin Gang\u2019s mysterious absence and replacement follows a pattern of falls from grace for rising stars<\/p>\n<p>Qin Gang, China\u2019s erstwhile foreign minister, has officially been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/25\/qin-gang-china-says-foreign-minister-has-been-replaced\">replaced<\/a> by Wang Yi, China\u2019s top diplomat, in a surprise reshuffle that provided a sliver of clarity regarding Qin\u2019s mysterious month-long absence. But many questions remain unanswered.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the standing committee of China\u2019s National People\u2019s Congress convened a surprise session. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/2023-07\/25\/c_1129767587.htm\">brief readout<\/a> of the meeting stated that Qin had been removed as foreign minister, stalling, for now, the career of a former rising star of the Chinese Communist party (CCP) and close adviser to Xi Jinping, China\u2019s leader.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/25\/the-growing-list-of-chinese-elites-who-disappear-but-later-resurface-subdued\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign minister Qin Gang\u2019s mysterious absence and replacement follows a pattern of falls from grace for rising starsQin Gang, China\u2019s erstwhile foreign minister, has officially been replaced by Wang Yi, China\u2019s top diplomat, in a surprise reshuffle th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3706,"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":[41,50,2790,1750,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hu-jintao","category-jack-ma","category-xi-jinping"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56962","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\/3706"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56963,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56962\/revisions\/56963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}