Qin Gang

China’s ousted foreign minister Qin Gang steps down as lawmaker

Mr Qin remains a member on the Communist Party’s decision-making central committee.

China’s ex-foreign minister Qin Gang was ousted after alleged affair: Media report

FILE PHOTO: Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang attends a press conference after talks with his Dutch counterpart Wopke Hoekstra in Beijing, China, May 23, 2023. REUTERS/Thomas Peter/Pool/file photo

Wang Yi makes first public comments after foreign minister reappointment

FILE PHOTO: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi poses as he meets Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan (not seen) in Ankara, Turkey, July 26, 2023. Stringer/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

News analysis

The questions that remain over China’s removal of Qin Gang

Beijing isn’t facing public pressure to explain what happened to its shortest-serving foreign minister Qin Gang or why he was taken down.

China removes foreign minister Qin Gang; Wang Yi gets old job back

China foreign minister Qin Gang (left) has been removed from his post by Beijing and replaced by his predecessor Wang Yi.

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Could the missing Chinese foreign minister’s fate be known soon?

Chinese foreign minister Qin Gang has missed a string of diplomatic meetings while his colleagues took his place.

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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)

China’s Qin Gang to skip Asean meet due to ‘physical condition’

China's Foreign Minister Qin Gang has not been seen in public for 16 days, an absence which had drawn scrutiny in recent days.

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At least they’re talking, but suspicion and gamesmanship still loom large over US-China ties

TOPSHOT - A China Central Television news broadcast shows footage of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (L) meeting with China's President Xi Jinping, on a giant screen outside a shopping mall in Beijing on June 19, 2023. (Photo by GREG BAKER / AFP)

China calls on US to meet it halfway amid frosty ties

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and China's Foreign Minister Qin Gang shaking hands ahead of a meeting at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on June 18, 2023.

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