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The Chinese national flag flies at half-mast for the passing of former Chinese premier Li Keqiang, at Tiananmen Square in Beijing on November 2, 2023. Former Chinese premier Li Keqiang, a reform-minded bureaucrat once tipped as the country's future leader only to be eclipsed by President Xi Jinping, died on October 27. He was 68.
The ruling Communist Party said in an official obituary that Li was a “time-tested and loyal communist soldier”, urging the Chinese people to “turn grief into strength” by rallying even closer around the party and its leadership.But the relatively muted state commemoration and apparently heavy online censorship suggest officials hope to stifle any excess public outpourings of sorrow over the passing of Xi’s onetime rival.
Li’s decade-long tenure saw a shift from the more consensus-based rule of former leaders towards Xi’s more concentrated style. “The Yellow River and Yangtze River will not change course,” Li had said, characterising the reform process as an unstoppable force of nature. But only 13 of them were visible, suggesting Chinese censors were scrubbing vast numbers of comments from the site.
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