2023-07-29 09:02:37
After Qin Gang stepped down, Wang Yi took over the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. How to interpret the change of Chinese foreign ministers
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On July 25, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress decided to remove Qin Gang from the position of Foreign Minister and appointed former Foreign Minister Wang Yi to take over, but did not explain the reason.
The website of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs once deleted almost all reports related to Qin Gang, but later relisted information on his diplomatic activities during his term of office, which intensified outside speculation that Qin Gang “disappeared” and was replaced in the public eye.
Professor David Goodman (David Goodman), director of the China Studies Center at the University of Sydney, said, “What this means and why it happened, these are all lost in China’s lack of transparency in the black box politics, and it is impossible for anyone to know.”
Song Wendi, a political scientist at the Australian National University, analyzed, “Wang Yi’s replacement of Qin Gang as China’s foreign minister may be a temporary arrangement…In any case, Wang Yi has attended international conferences as foreign minister many times, but there is no foreign minister’s appointment.” Title, it seems very, very strange.”
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