Former Chinese president Hu Jintao was unexpectedly led out of Saturday’s closing ceremony of the Communist Party Congress, AFP journalists on the scene witnessed.
The frail-looking Hu, 79, initially seemed reluctant to leave the front row of Politburo Standing Committee members in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People, where he was sitting next to President Xi Jinping.
He had brief exchanges with Xi and Premier Li Keqiang after stewards spoke with him. A steward, holding Hu’s arm, led the former president out.
Hu patted Li’s shoulder as he left. His departure was not explained. Hu, who retired in 2013, appeared at last Sunday’s Congress opening with his hair completely grey.
Xi, 69, is widely expected to be reaffirmed this weekend as the Party’s General Secretary, paving the way for him to gain a norm-breaking third term as Chinese president next March.
The new Central Committee of around 200 senior Party officials was elected shortly after 11am Saturday, state media agency Xinhua reported, without disclosing a full list of members
This is not a strong topic for me, but I was under the assumption there were 2 heads of the CCP, the President, and whoever runs Hong Kong. I heard this from Rush Limbaugh years ago.
Yes, Xi has been shaking things up here and there, and seemed to be at odds with HK leadership. Xi would make decisions that was detrimental to the CCP as a whole.
Thanks for the comment, I’ve been casually digging for something like this for a I couple of days. It looks like HK has just fallen and consolidated behind Xi. Lets wait and see if more CCP get purged like what happened when the House of Saud fell. I doubt we’ll hear anything because of China’s Great Firewall.
This very much. This is what gave me the clue that he is purging CCP from the inside.