Take former President Hu Jintao abroad
A very unusual incident. AFP reporters noted that Hu Jintao, the former Chinese president, walked out of the closing ceremony of the Communist Party of China Congress on Saturday, October 22. The Chinese state media did not explain or report these facts.
Early drama: Hu Jintao is seen being led shortly after taking reporters to the main hall pic.twitter.com/pRffGZF60I
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The staff tricked Hu Jintao, who served as China’s president from 2003 to 2013, into getting up from his seat, who is sitting next to Xi Jinping in the first row of the People’s Palace. An employee tries to grab the arm of the 79-year-old former president, looking weak, but the latter refuses. Then the individual tries to lift it from the armpits, but Xi Jinping’s predecessor continues to resist. Hu Jintao at the same time tries to proceed with the documents placed on his desk, which seem to belong to the number one Chinese man. Xi Jinping holds them firmly. A conversation took place for about a minute between the employee and Hu Jintao.
The former leader was finally convinced to leave the building, reluctantly. Hu Jintao was carried by his arm outside. When he got up, he made a short exchange with Xi Jinping, who answered him without looking at him, and Premier Li Keqiang, who gave him a friendly pat on the shoulder. The audience seems unemotional.
This sequence occurred shortly after the press entered the People’s Palace in Beijing to cover the closing ceremony of the conference. Xi Jinping, 69, is scheduled to get a third term as party general secretary on Sunday, guaranteeing him a third term in office next March.
The name “Hu Jintao” appeared censored on Saturday afternoon on the social network Weibo, China’s equivalent of Twitter. Only information from the day before, and from official accounts, was available.
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