Former Chinese leader Hu Jintao was escorted off stage during the closing session of a major Communist Party congress, where the 79-year-old had been prominently seated next to President Xi Jinping.
Hu was helped out of his seat about halfway through proceedings in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Saturday, in a dramatic moment both captured on camera and witnessed by more than 2,000 people present.
The incident saw Xi turning toward Hu as he prepared to leave. Li Zhanshu, chair of the national legislature’s Standing Committee — who was sitting on Hu’s other side — tried to physically assist the former leader, until party secretariat chief Wang Huning gestured for him to stand down.
Hu, who turns 80 in December, has looked increasingly frail in recent public appearances and seemed confused as he was led off stage. He stopped briefly to exchange some words with Xi, who nodded in response, and tapped outgoing Premier Li Keqiang on the back.
The official Xinhua News agency reported that Hu had “insisted” on attending the session even though he had been recuperating recently, according to its official Twitter account. His staff accompanied him to a separate room to rest after he felt unwell during the session and Hu is “much better” now, Xinhua said.
On China’s Twitter-like Weibo, the incident appeared to have been censored, with searches for Hu Jintao only returning posts published before the weekend on Saturday afternoon. While the platform’s top ten trending items were dominated by the congress, Hu’s early exit wasn’t among them.
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Snowedin
1 year ago
Xi is a threat to the US and the rest of the world.
Democrat Communist Party (DCP) are wannabe Chicoms.
Democrats are effectively the 5th Collumn for the CCP.
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Laddyboy
1 year ago
The CCP is now a FULL BLOWN DICTATORSHIP. America’s pRESIDENT IS JEALOUS!
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garry pollack
1 year ago
wow…Unbelievable & Hu was really such a voice 4 freedom & democracy!!!
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VTS
1 year ago
Commies have always been commies.
armaros
1 year ago
This is the model for the January 6th Commitee
Li Ze Chi Nei would love this approach
Notice the comrades in the front row don’t wear masks
They’re the bigger comrades who’s loyalty to communism is so strong and tested that the virus cannot penetrate them .
That again shows how mask communism is a power play and consider how much this was applied in the West by the adherents to Chinese Communist domination like Fauci and Democratic leaders. And the people who wear them in the street still. The now visible China class.
Old Tao wasn’t too enthused to be walked to the van that will take him to the gulag.
His organs are too old for trade and his strength too low for effective enslavement.
His family members will get the opportunity to be organ farms or slaves at some McKinsey consulted factory.
We’re heading to war with China.
It’s no longer an if but a when. .
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