Speculation about Li's standing comes after Qin Gang was abruptly removed in July as foreign minister, a change announced weeks after he had disappeared from public view earlier in the summer.
Biden's national security adviser Jake Sullivan talks in Malta with China's foreign minister Wang Yi
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In March, he said the American strategy for the Indo-Pacific region “seeks to gang up to form exclusive blocs, stir up confrontation and undermine regional integration.”
U.S. stumped by mysterious absence of Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang
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