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CNN's signal in China appeared to be censored halfway through CNN's Will Ripley reporting on the ousting and replacement of China's foreign minister Qin Gang after a long absence from the public view.

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[-] cyd@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

The leading rumour is that he was keeping a mistress who was compromised by US/UK intelligence. He was a favoured political protege of Xi, so it'd take something like that to get him disappeared.

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