The disappearance of China's foreign minister sends a worrying message to investors at home and abroad.
Qin Gang in Berlin, May 5, 2023. Credit: Thomas Trutschel/picture-alliance/dpa via AP Images
At the end of 2022, Qin Gang took up one of the most prominent positions in global politics, as minister of foreign affairs in China, the world’s second largest economy and Asia’s premier power. At the end of June, he disappeared from public view, with barely any official explanation.
In the ensuing weeks, wild rumors of an extremely negative nature about Qin flooded into this information vacuum, saturating the Chinese language internet. Official government channels did not even att
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Agriculture has traditionally been a fruitful area for China-U.S. cooperation, dating back to the two countries’ resumption of diplomatic relations in the 1970s. Now it is just another area marked by Sino-American distrust, as Washington hunts Chinese agriscience “spies” and Beijing races to reduce reliance on U.S. farm exports.
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