Chinese government says, “We don’t know” about the Minister of National Defense who has not been seen for more than 10 days
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U.S. Ambassador to Japan raises suspicion of disappearance of Director Lee Shangfu
The Chinese government officially responded that it was unaware of Defense Minister Lee Shangfu’s absence from official appearances for nearly two weeks.
When asked about China’s position on the suspicion of Director Li Shangfu’s disappearance at a regular briefing held on the afternoon of the 11th, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maoning responded, “I do not understand the situation you mentioned.”
On the 8th, U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel posted on the Ambassador’s “Following the disappearance of Foreign Minister Qin Jiang and the Commander of the Rocket Force, Defense Minister Li Shangfu has not been seen in public for two weeks,” he wrote.
He asked, “Who will win this unemployment race? Chinese youth or Xi Jinping’s cabinet?” and added the hashtag ‘Mystery of the Beijing Building.’
The novel ‘And Then There Were None’ is about 10 people, including 8 men and women invited to a villa on an uninhabited island and a couple of villa servants, who are murdered one by one while no one can leave the island due to a storm, but no one knows who the culprit is. .
It is interpreted as a post suggesting that, following the disappearance of former Foreign Minister Qin Kang and high-ranking members of the Rocket Force and their replacement by others, Director Lee Shangfu may be following the same path.
Director Li, who was appointed as Minister of National Defense in March, has not been seen in state media for 12 days since giving a keynote speech at the China-Africa Peace and Security Forum held in Beijing on the 29th of last month.
Director Lee was subject to U.S. sanctions for illegally purchasing 10 Su-35 fighter jets and S-400 air defense missile systems from Russia in 2018 while serving as head of the Equipment Development Department of the Central Military Commission.
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