China’s Last Leader Hu Jintao Physically Removed From Chinese Communist Party Congress
Posted on AllSides October 22nd, 2022
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REUTERS/Tingshu Wang
The former head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was ushered from his seat beside General Secretary Xi Jinping during the final session of the 20th National Congress Saturday.
A masked usher physically removed Hu Jintao from the Great Hall of the People as nearly 2,300 delegates and the global media watched on, video of the event shows. Hu served as CCP general secretary from 2002 to 2012 and is regarded as an elder statesman within the Communist Youth League — one of the CCP’s three intra-party “cliques,” which also include...
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