China News: Following weeks of speculation that he had fallen out of favour, Qin was removed from office by Beijing's top lawmaking body on Tuesday. Wang Yi, a se
Japan hopes it will be able to communicate closely with China even though Beijing fired Foreign Minister Qin Gang for no apparent reason, the top government spokesman says..
Chinese diplomat Wang Yi appointed foreign minister, replacing Qin Gang who had been missing for a month. Speculation surrounds Qin s absence and the reasons for his removal from office.
China removed its sometimes outspoken foreign minister on Tuesday and replaced him with his predecessor at an unusually scheduled meeting, a move that has fueled rumors about what might be going on with the nation s Communist Party elite. The move comes amid a foreign backlash against China s increasingly aggressive foreign policy, of which Qin was a chief proponent. That now includes Chinese political and economic support for Russia in its war on Ukraine, the signing of a secretive security pact with the Solomon Islands that could give it a military foothold in the South Pacific and the rejection of demands for more information about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic that began in China in late 2019.