Posted on 10/27/2023 9:30:56 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Former Chinese Premier Li Keqiang died early Friday morning, according to Chinese state media.
The 68-year-old had been on holiday in Shanghai when he suffered a heart attack on Thursday, succumbing at 12:10 a.m. despite "all-out efforts to rescue him," officials said.
Li served as China's seventh premier from 2013 to March 2023. He was widely viewed as an unassuming, reformist-minded technocrat who oversaw the country's vast bureaucracy during the later stages of China's economic boom and into the COVID pandemic.
Li was the premier of the People’s Republic of China from 2013 to March 2023. Regarded as a reformist economist, in the decade before his appointment he had figured in many lists of those most likely to be the prime leader of the country after the expected retirement of Hu Jintao. But the final decade of Li’s career was mostly spent in the shadow of the man who eventually prevailed over him, Xi Jinping. Despite this, domestically and internationally he was regarded as a popular figure, and news of his unexpected death was met with respectful comments on Chinese social media.
The State Council Information Office, which handles information inquiries related to the Chinese central government, did not immediately respond to Newsweek's request for comment.
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Whose tea was he drinking?
Where is the meme of Bones McCoy, please?
“He’s dead, Xi”
He was the only real rival to Xi
Yeah. So they say.
I posted this last night.
It’s suspicious.
Xi got tips from Putin on how to eliminate rivals.
Was he recently vaccinated against the covid-19 pandemic?
I guess they figured that “he slipped on the soap” was just too far fetched.
Victim of the latest version of the clot shot!
If only it happened to some of our leaders.
The Morton Company vaccine does not have the side effects that Pfizer and Moderna do. All the “cool kids” got that one.
Ha. That’ll do.
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