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Qin Gang in Berlin, May 5, 2023. Credit: Thomas Trutschel/picture-alliance/dpa via AP Images
At the end of 2022, Qin Gang took up one of the most prominent positions in global politics, as minister of foreign affairs in China, the world’s second largest economy and Asia’s premier power. At the end of June, he disappeared from public view, with barely any official explanation.
In the ensuing weeks, wild rumors of an extremely negative nature about Qin flooded into this information vacuum, saturating the Chinese language internet. Official government channels did not even att
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