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Former China premier Li Keqiang dead at 68

www.bbc.com Former China premier Li Keqiang dead at 68

Chinese state media said he passed away from a heart attack despite "all-out efforts" to revive him.

They'll be saying Xi assassinated him.

RIP I guess. Western media always claimed he was a liberal reformer type who secretly wanted to transition China to a Liberal democracy (Bourgeois republic) friendly to the west but IDK if that's true.

Might be worth reading this interesting article in light of his death

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"This probably means even less restraint on Mr Xi's exercise of power and authority."
His death is being widely mourned on Chinese social media, with many expressing shock and grief - though comments on many posts appear to have been restricted.
Deaths of former Chinese leaders have triggered protests in the past. An outpouring of mourning during Jiang Zemin's death last year was seen as a subtle criticism of President Xi.
That article uses every single sentence it can as an anti-China soapbox, it's fucking crazy that we're hurtling into conflict with China like this and everyone is just believing the media about it
- Xi bad. Xi bad. Xi bad. Xi bad. Xi bad.
  Did I mention that Xi bad?
  
  Xi stole all my spoons and nuked my favorite billionaire's penthouse apartment. Truly a dystopian nightmare
  
  What about your toothbrush? Please don't tell me he became so sloppy to miss it.
  
  He took my entire apartment block's toothbrushes and the surrounding neighborhood!
  
  Xi bangs, Xi bangs
  Ooh baby, when Xi moves, Xi moves
  I go crazy 'cause Xi looks like a flower
  But Xi stings like a bee
  
  This is exactly why I knew i had to read Governance of China. If they spend this much time trash talking someone, it’s likely because the person is saying something they don’t want you to hear.
  
  I still haven't gotten around to reading it but I hear it's pretty unexciting. Did anything really stand out about it to you?
  
  I’d always start with Roland boer before going into GoC tbh
  
  It is very long, and I am not even through the first book yet, so I can’t really say.
- A guy can't even have his heart explode into pieces in peace without being used as propaganda
- The guy was already retired for over 7 months so assassinating him was pretty pointless. If Xi was worried about him restraining power why not do it during the 10 years where he actually had influence? Yeah, there's conspiracies about his death floating about in the country but that just means the assassination hypothesis is even more absurd. Why would anyone risk a public backlash for essentially no gain?
  
  The guy was already retired for over 7 months so assassinating him was pretty pointless, but Xi may have done it anyway to consolidate power. If Xi was worried about him restraining power why not do it during the 10 years where he actually had influence, although evidence shows that Xi may have been forcing him out of public spotlight during that timespan. Yeah, there's conspiracies about his death floating about in the country but that just means the assassination hypothesis is even more absurd, even though it is possible. Why would anyone risk a public backlash for essentially no gain, unless they were despotic evil dictator?
- in the past, people have had very strong feelings about their leaders dying. this is because china bad.
- Jiang Zemin
  "Too young, too simple, sometimes naive."

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