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This week’s unexplained disappearance of Xi Jinping, China’s leader-in-waiting who has not been seen in public for 11 days, shows that, despite the country’s economic transformation, when it comes to its leaders Beijing is as secretive now as it was in 1971, when Lin Biao died and Mao Zedong was still in power
This week’s unexplained disappearance of Xi Jinping, China’s leader-in-waiting who has not been seen in public for 11 days, shows that, despite the country’s economic transformation, when it comes to its leaders Beijing is as secretive now as it was in 1971, when Lin Biao died and Mao Zedong was still in power
