
'And then there were none': Another Chinese minister disappears from the public eye
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
59% : General Li was last seen in public on 29 August, when he delivered a keynote speech at the third China-Africa Peace and Security Forum in Beijing.42% : Please try again later{{ /verifyErrors }} The whereabouts of China's defence minister have been called into question as he has not been seen in public for almost two weeks now.
40% : Since then, the 57-year-old diplomat, a close confidante of Mr Xi, has not been seen in public amid rumours of his extramarital affair with a TV presenter.
39% : The two generals - Li Yuchao, chief of the People's Liberation Army's (PLA) rocket force unit, and his deputy, Liu Guangbin - have not been seen in public for months.
36% : Similarly, it came to light in July that foreign minister Qin Gang had not been seen in public for more than three weeks.
34% : "First, foreign minister Qin Gang goes missing, then the Rocket Force commanders go missing, and now defence minister Li Shangfu hasn't been seen in public for two weeks.
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.