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For a month he was absent and did not appear, then his absence gave rise to many speculations and rumors.

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However, Beijing decided to break its silence and today, Tuesday, announced the dismissal of its Foreign Minister Chen Gang, who has not appeared in public for a month.

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Things didn’t stop there, but instead he reappointed his predecessor Wang Yi as foreign minister, state media reported on Tuesday.

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And China’s new Xinhua news agency reported that “Qin Gang has been relieved of his position as foreign minister,” which he has held since December 2022, and replaced by Wang Yi, the current chief diplomat, without specifying the reason for the change.

It is noteworthy that the White House said that it had no information about the reasons for the disappearance of Chinese Foreign Minister Chen Gang from the public arena.

And US national security adviser Jake Sullivan, in response to a question about the fate of the Chinese minister, said last Saturday: “We don’t know. Literally, this is what we have so far from information about him.

Meeting with US counterpart

He said Chinese Foreign Minister Chen Gang is to meet with his US counterpart Anthony Blinken at the Southeast Asian (ASEAN) Ministerial Forum in Indonesia.

However, ahead of the ASEAN summit, the Chinese Foreign Ministry announced that its minister, Chen Jang, would not attend the ASEAN meetings held in Indonesia due to health reasons.

The ministry declined to comment on whether Chan’s health problems were caused by infection with the novel coronavirus.

Last activity last month

It is noteworthy that instead of Chen Gang, who was before him the Minister of Foreign Affairs of China, the main Chinese diplomat Wang Yi was present.

According to the Chinese Foreign Ministry website, Chen’s last recorded activity was on June 25, when he met with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko in Beijing to discuss Sino-Russian relations.