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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 removed. PHOTO: AFP
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BEIJING – “I have no information to provide.”

That was the stock phrase that greeted nearly every question lobbed at Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Mao Ning a day after her boss got the sack. And there were plenty.

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