{"id":57028,"date":"2023-07-28T07:04:27","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T22:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/27\/mystery-qin-gang-intensifies-foreign-ministry-reinstates-references"},"modified":"2023-07-28T07:04:27","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T22:04:27","slug":"china-qin-gang-mystery-intensifies-as-articles-wiped-from-ministry-site-reappear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57028","title":{"rendered":"China: Qin Gang mystery intensifies as articles wiped from ministry site reappear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>References to missing former foreign minister\u2019s final activities were reinstated on government website after being erased<\/p>\n<p>The mystery surrounding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/25\/qin-gang-china-says-foreign-minister-has-been-replaced\">the fate of China\u2019s former foreign minister<\/a> has intensified, as references to him that had previously been scrubbed from the foreign ministry\u2019s website started to reappear.<\/p>\n<p>Articles about Qin Gang\u2019s activities were removed from the foreign ministry\u2019s website after he was replaced by his predecessor, Wang Yi, on Tuesday. Qin, who has not been seen in public for a month, remained as a state councillor, leading to confusion about what, if any, disciplinary action was being taken against him.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/27\/mystery-qin-gang-intensifies-foreign-ministry-reinstates-references\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>References to missing former foreign minister\u2019s final activities were reinstated on government website after being erasedThe mystery surrounding the fate of China\u2019s former foreign minister has intensified, as references to him that had previously been &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3580,"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":[50,4,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-politics","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57028","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\/3580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57029,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57028\/revisions\/57029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}