This isn’t the first time Xi Jinping was said to have disappeared unexpectedly. And it isn’t the first time Xi was unaccounted for in the weeks leading up to a crucial Communist Party Congress. China’s entire government and political calendar revolves around these once-every-five years gatherings, making them really important.
To have the top guy to go missing amid circulating rumors of infighting even a possible hostile takeover, given the precarious situation across the world today and China’s place in it, how much it might be responsible for it, your heart skips a beat. As it turned out, at least what we know, the September 2022 coup didn’t happen, no more than an odd combination of coincidences spun into a narrative.
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