The Foreign Ministry website has been scrubbed clean of pretty much any mention of Chingang now. Qing Gang's mystery has been completely transfixing elite Beijing because he is seen as hand-picked and favored by the supreme leader Xi Jinping. The job of foreign ministry is actually not that senior in the Communist Party machine.
Russia’s axeing of the Black Sea grain deal reveals a war machine running out of options. We explore how to get the deal back on track. A month-long mystery surrounding China’s absent foreign minister has grown deeper: now his memory is being scrubbed from official websites (10:15). And literary criticism has lost its claws—gaining a newfound civility that is bad for readers (16:37).
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