The disappearing act of Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang

(FILES) China's Foreign Minister Qin Gang holds a copy of China's constitution during a press conference at the Media Center of the National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing on March 7, 2023. China's foreign minister Qin Gang told US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on June 14, 2023 that relations between the two countries were facing "new difficulties and challenges", Beijing said. (Photo by NOEL CELIS / AFP)

Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang was last seen on June 25 when he met officials from Sri Lanka, Vietnam and Russia.

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Tan Dawn Wei

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BEIJING - The past three weeks should have been an exceptionally hectic time for China’s main diplomat Qin Gang, with multiple meetings to attend. But the Foreign Minister has curiously gone missing.

Speculation is mounting by the day about what has happened to the man who rode a rocket to the top of the Beijing bureaucracy, propelled by President Xi Jinping’s trust in him.

The disappearing act of Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang

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