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China offered no explanation for the sacking of foreign minister Qin Gang on Wednesday, while scrubbing mentions of him from a government website. Qin -- who has not been seen in public for over a month -- was removed from office by Beijing's top lawmaking body on Tuesday after just 207 days in the job. That followed weeks of speculation that the former Chinese ambassador to the United States and one-time confidant of President Xi Jinping had suddenly fallen out of favour. As of Wednesday morning, any reference to the 57-year-old had been removed from the website of China's foreign...
