Qin Gang, China's foreign minister, has not made a public appearance in three weeks — an absence that has set off speculation about his health and status, with many thinking it is a sign of trouble. Where is China’s foreign minister? Beijing won't say.:
After China’s leader, Xi Jinping, catapulted Qin Gang into the post of foreign minister in December, Qin set a frantic pace, meeting dozens of foreign officials as he pressed Beijing’s agenda in a divided, war-stricken world.As of Monday, he had not made a public appearance in three weeks. His last reported engagements were on June 25, when he held talks with diplomats from Vietnam, Russia and Sri Lanka.
The episode “is embarrassing and unsettling to Chinese diplomats because of the uncertainty it injects in a system that is tightly controlled,” said Daniel R. Russel, a former senior American diplomat now at the Asia Society Policy Institute. “For foreign diplomats it raises even more questions about the bureaucratic weight of China’s foreign ministry.”Secrecy around the personal lives and health of senior officials is ingrained in the Chinese Communist Party.
“But in this case, the mystery surrounding such an important official — foreign minister — is mind-boggling,” he said. As foreign minister, Qin has been responsible for implementing the Chinese leader’s vision of Beijing as an increasingly confident global power. In June, he met for five and a half hours with Secretary of State Antony Blinken during the U.S. official’s visit to Beijing, as the two nations sought to ease tensions.
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