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2022-10-22 China-Japan-Koreas
China's former president Hu Jintao, 79, is forcibly removed from seat next to his successor Xi Jinping at televised Communist Party Congress and dragged out of the room
  • Hu Jintao dragged out of Communist Congress just after foreign media came in

  • Former president appeared disorientated as two assistants helped him to stand

  • He then leaned down to speak to president Xi Jinping as official pulled his arm

  • Speculation over if it was due to health or was deliberately orchestreated scene

  • He has been 'erased' from Chinese social media with searches for him censored


Via Citizen Free Press, courtesy of NoMoreBS:
Posted by Skidmark 2022-10-22 11:12|| || Front Page|| [11142 views ]  Top

#1 Hu Jintao: The mysterious exit of China's former leader from party congress
Posted by Skidmark 2022-10-22 11:17||   2022-10-22 11:17|| Front Page Top

#2 It's not beyond the realm of possibility that the old boy massively nadlered himself and Emperor Xi wasn't going to sit next to that.

On the other hand, the faces of the various party members that he passed before would suggest otherwise. Probably curtains for the poor devil.
Posted by Cesare 2022-10-22 15:50||   2022-10-22 15:50|| Front Page Top

#3 Was it time to make some egg rolls?
Posted by Raj 2022-10-22 15:58||   2022-10-22 15:58|| Front Page Top

#4 The venue and timing were a masterful statement of despotic, Imperial power. The mass of rigid, emotionless faces avoiding any hint of surprise or interest in this confirms how total Xi is now in power. My guess is that even an internet inquiry about the soon-to-be hospitalized/warehoused Jintao will be grounds for persecution and reprisal. This sets the stage for the looming January-February invasion of Taiwan with no worry about internal resistance from the cowed Mandarins. As for that time period in DC, the clusterf*ck of the new Congress and the political realignment of lobbyists and dark money will quell any Biden response besides risible bluster.
Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-10-22 16:16||   2022-10-22 16:16|| Front Page Top

#5 Did they park an anti-aircraft gun outside before it all went down?
Posted by Procopius2k 2022-10-22 19:01||   2022-10-22 19:01|| Front Page Top

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