Chinese Vice-Premier Huang dies

[Posteritatis]

Source: BBC News

Chinese Vice-Premier Huang Ju, one of the most senior leaders in China, has died aged 68 in Beijing, the official Xinhua news agency has reported.

Huang was in charge of financial and economic policymaking in the Politburo, China's highest decision-making body.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6714343.stm

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D'oh.

[aquart]

1. Oh my.

Did he die of kidney failure?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. lead poisoning?

of the 45 caliber type?

[AlCzervik]

3. i found another article saying he died from Pancreatic cancer.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article1765490.ece

[Benhurst]

4. He should have know better than to eat food produced in China.

[onehandle]

5. Will Wal-Mart send his family a cake? nt

[David__77]

6. Official obit: "“a long-tested and faithful Communist fighter...outstanding leader."

Rumors had circulated the Huang, associated with Jiang Zemin's faction, would be dumped. I guess now Hu Jintao will have a chance to consolidate his power in the politburo standing committee, which governs day-to-day affairs. It seems that the Jiang Zemin people are always implicated in the worst of scandals. I wonder if it's just that Hu is using their corruption as an excuse, while Hu's people are no better.