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Former Chinese foreign minister Qin Gang, who was stripped of his title in July, has reportedly died, either from suicide or torture.

A report in Politico said two people with access to top Chinese officials have claimed that Qin died in late July at a military hospital in Beijing. It was alleged that Gang was removed from the position after an investigation concluded that he had an extramarital affair and fathered a child while serving as US ambassador.

Before becoming the foreign minister, Qin served as the Chinese ambassador to the United States from July 2021 until January this year.

An inquiry was conducted by the Communist Party into his lifestyle in the US. Senior Chinese officials were told that an internal Communist Party investigation found Qin engaged in the affair throughout his tenure as China's ambassador.

The inquiry was precisely looking into whether Qin's affair or any other conduct in the US had compromised China’s national security, a report in the Wall Street Journal said.

After Qin's ouster, his predecessor Wang Yi was reinstated. The government didn't give any explanation for his removal at that time.
 

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China's former Foreign Minister Qin Gang, who was ousted from his position in July, has reportedly died, either from suicide or torture.

According to a report with Politico, two people with access to top Chinese officials have claimed that Qin died in late July at a military hospital in Beijing.

The hospital reportedly treats top leaders of the country.

Earlier, the Wall Street Journal reported that Qin had an extramarital affair while he was ambassador to the United States. It also mentioned that the former foreign minister was cooperating with the investigation, which was focused on whether the affair or Qin's conduct had compromised China's national security.
 

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https://www.politico.eu/article/chinas-paranoid-purge-xi-jinping-li-keqiang-qin-gang-li-shangfu/

Something is rotten in the imperial court of Chairman Xi Jinping.

While the world is distracted by war in the Middle East and Ukraine, a Stalin-like purge is sweeping through China’s ultra-secretive political system, with profound implications for the global economy and even the prospects for peace in the region.

The signals emanating from Beijing are unmistakable, even as China’s security services have ramped up repression to totalitarian levels, making it almost impossible to know what is really happening inside the country.
 

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The unexplained disappearance and removal of China’s foreign and defense ministers — both Xi loyalists who were handpicked and elevated mere months before they went missing earlier this year — are just two examples.

Other high-profile victims include the generals in charge of China’s nuclear weapons program and some of the most senior officials overseeing the Chinese financial sector. Several of these former Xi acolytes have apparently died in custody.

Another ominous sign is the untimely death of Li Keqiang, China’s recently retired prime minister — No. 2 in the Communist hierarchy — who supposedly died of a heart attack in a swimming pool in Shanghai in late October, despite enjoying some of the world’s best medical care. Following his death, Xi ordered public mourning for his former rival be heavily curtailed.

In the minds of many in China, “heart attack in a swimming pool” has the same connotation that “falling out of a window” does for Russian apparatchiks who anger or offend Vladimir Putin.

Since his reign began in 2012, Xi Jinping’s endless purges have removed millions of officials — from top-ranked Communist Party “tigers” down to lowly bureaucratic “flies,” to use Xi’s evocative terminology.

What’s different today is that the officials being neutralized are not members of hostile political factions but loyalists from the inner ring of Xi’s own clique, leading to serious questions over the regime’s stability.
 
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