Former Chinese President Hu Jintao was removed from the final rite of the Communist Party Congress in Beijing from his chair alongside his successor Xi Jinping today, CNN reported, showing a video of the meeting.
Li’s departure was “a dramatic moment that is normally a highly choreographed event,” the network reported. “The cases surrounding Hu’s departure are unclear. “
Hu took him away “shortly after the foreign media arrived,” The Associated Press said.
Saturday’s week-long rally decided on 205 party leaders from its central committee for the next five years. The assembly comes amid geopolitical tensions with the United States over Taiwan and Beijing’s close ties with Russia, and watched through governments, corporations and investors around the world. for the symptoms of China’s long-term political directions.
Hu, 79, was sitting next to Xi “when a staff member approached him,” CNN said. “As he sat down, Hu gave the impression of briefly speaking with the male staff member, while China’s third-tallest leader, Li Zhanshu, who was sitting on the other side, had his hand on the back of the Hu chair,” CNN reported.
Hu then gave the impression of standing up after being lifted through the member, who had grabbed the former leader by the arm, while Kong Shaoxun, head of the party secretariat, approached. Hu spoke briefly with the two men and at first seemed reluctant to leave.
“At one point, while Hu was still sitting, Xi gave the impression of placing his hand on a document that Hu seeks to succeed in preventing him from doing so,” CNN said.
Chinese state media, as they have done all week, welcomed today’s meeting, without explaining why they took Hu away.
“The congress noted that the status quo of Comrade Xi Jinping’s central position in the Central Committee of the Party and the Party as a whole and the leading role of Xi Jinping Thought on socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era have marked the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. . in “an irreversible old course,” Xinhua news firm reported Monday.
The tough Politburo and the party’s state committee will be appointed on Sunday and meet with domestic and foreign media, Xinhua said.
Until today, the congress had stood out through the coherence of policy statements (see similar article here).
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