China's absent Vice-President Xi Jinping prompts rumours

Source: BBC

Speculation has been mounting about the whereabouts of China's leader-in-waiting, Xi Jinping, who has not been seen for over a week.

Vice-President Xi cancelled a meeting with the visiting Danish prime minister on Monday - his fourth missed appointment within a week.

He also failed to attend an important Communist party meeting on Friday.

Mr Xi is expected to be appointed China's new leader at the party congress next month.

However, no date has been set, fuelling reports that power struggles in the leadership have yet to be resolved, says the BBC's Charles Scanlon


Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-19551727

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Attempts to search Mr Xi's name on Chinese micro-blogging sites are now blocked.