Flags flew at half-mast in Beijing on Thursday as China readied the funeral of late ex-premier Li Keqiang, a reform-minded bureaucrat once tipped as the country's future leader but who was eclipsed by Xi Jinping."All the flags in the whole country are at half-mast, and we can't do anything except bow and bid him farewell," one user wrote on Thursday, seemingly in reference to Li Keqiang.
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