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China’s ‘disappeared’ foreign minister demoted to low-level publishing job, say former U.S. officials
(www.washingtonpost.com)
this post was submitted on 09 Sep 2024
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I read the whole article to find out why he was demoted only to find out the answer, near the end, was, "we have no idea."
Thanks, WaPo.
I mean, the CCP is notoriously tight-lipped about this shit. He probably got sacked because the “wolf warrior” policy incited all of their regional neighbors to basically come together and say “fuck you, China, stop it”, and moreover has spurred the US to begin designing and implementing some very interesting and highly flexible pieces of military hardware.
So in the context of promoting the CCP’s interests in the region and improving their ability to achieve said interests, the dude absolutely, categorically failed. All he did at the end of the day was wake up the neighbors.
Ww diplomacy was xi's brilliant idea that backfired so spectacularly and took years to convince him was a catastrophe.
Saying they realized xi was being an idiot is impossible so they just slowly let it drop and tried to restore sane diplomacy to counter the US making friends throughout Asia.
WW diplomacy worked under trump when nobody could count on the US backing them therefore China was the only option, that's over now.
Well yeah, but Qin Gang was the face of it, and was made to take the blame for it, because ~~Dear Leader~~ ~~Winnie the Pooh~~ Xi is not allowed to look like a fool, as a matter of CCP policy.