China's Defense Minister has been missing for the last one month and the Defense Ministry has now made its first public comment on this matter. In his statement, the Defense Ministry spokesperson said on Thursday that he was not aware of the situation. When Wu Qian, senior colonel and director of the ministry's information office, was asked at a press conference whether the investigation against Li Shangfu was still ongoing for corruption and whether he was still the defense minister, he (Wu) gave a strange answer. Gave.
Responding to a question asked by a journalist of a foreign media organization, Wu said that I am not aware of the situation you have mentioned. Lee became defense minister when the new cabinet was named in March. He has not been seen since giving a speech on 29 August. He is the second minister to go missing this year. Before him, Foreign Minister Chin Cong, who was removed from the post in July, had gone missing.
Why disappear from public life?
The Chinese government has not given any reason for their removal from the post, nor has it told anything about why both of them (Kang and Li) suddenly disappeared from public life. Nothing can be said clearly yet about whether his disappearance is a sign of any change in China's foreign or defense policies.
The disappearance of two ministers is not an unusual incident.
Such disappearances of officials and civilians are not uncommon in China, and often occur a few months after criminal charges are announced against a person. But it is unusual for two sitting ministers to go missing one after the other within a very short span of time.
American officials had expressed concern
US Ambassador to Japan, R. Emmanuel said in a post on X earlier this month that Chinese President Xi Jinping's cabinet can now be compared to Agatha Christie's novel And Then There Were None. Along with this, Defense Ministry spokesperson Wu did not pay heed to the concerns expressed by American officials that there are no clear communication channels between the armies of the two countries.
America always wants its supremacy
He said that the problem is not lack of communication, but there is a need for changes by America in the way to bring the relations between the armies of the two countries back on track. He said that America always wants its supremacy so that it can do as per its wish. Wu also said that Taiwan is on the path to its own destruction with the unveiling of its first indigenously built submarine on Thursday.
Spokesperson avoided questions from foreign media
Wu opened the news conference by announcing a global security conference in Beijing next month. But he avoided the question of another foreign media correspondent whether the Defense Minister would participate in it. The spokesperson said that we will share information about the Beijing Xiangshan Forum in the coming time.
No comments:
Post a Comment