Wednesday 26 July 2023

“Wang Yi back…” in Foreign Minister imbroglio


Online here 
But the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China didn't take my advice from yesterday: “Tell the Truth!”. Silly, silly CCP….

My advice was: Tell us —  tell the world — what happened to now ex-Foreign Minister Qin Gang. If he had an “inappropriate” relationship, so be it. Being open now will save aggro and angst in the long term. And burnish your “soft power”.

Instead we have "terse statements", "huge embarrassments", and "more questions than answers". Honestly, the mind boggles at the continuing bull-headed opacity. 

Note that in the front page story above no mention of the rumours that Qin had had a baby with journo Fu Xiaotian