Li Keqiang

2023 - 10 - 27

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Li Keqiang: Former Chinese premier dies from heart attack at 68 (BBC News)

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

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Li Keqiang, China's former premier, dies suddenly at 68 (Financial Times)

Senior official once regarded as rival to President Xi Jinping suffers heart attack in Shanghai.

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Former Chinese premier Li Keqiang has died, state media reports (CNBC)

China's former premier Li Keqiang died just past midnight after suffering a heart attack while in Shanghai, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV reported Friday.

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Former Chinese Premier Li Keqiang dead at 68: state media (CNN)

Former Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, once seen as reform-minded contender to the country's top leadership role, died of a sudden heart attack early Friday in ...

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Li Keqiang, Former Chinese Premier and Economic Reformist, Dies ... (TIME)

Former Premier Li Keqiang, China's top economic official for a decade, died Friday of a heart attack. He was 68.

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China ex-Premier Li Keqiang, sidelined by Xi Jinping, dies at 68 (Reuters)

China's former Premier Li Keqiang died of a heart attack on Friday, just 10 months after retiring from a decade in office during which his reformist star ...

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Li Keqiang, a former premier of China who was marginalized by Xi ... (NPR)

Li was groomed for leadership, and was seen at one point as a contender for China's top job, only to be pushed aside as Xi Jinping ascended.

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Reactions to death of Chinese ex-Premier Li Keqiang (Reuters)

"The scope for Li's policymaking and implementation had became more subordinated under President Xi Jinping, who had unabashedly dominated in politics and ...

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Former Chinese Premier Li Keqiang dead at 68: state media (CNN)

Former Chinese Premier Li Keqiang speaking at the EU-China Summit in Brussels, Belgium in 2019. Thierry Monasse/Getty Images/File. Editor's Note ...

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China ex-Premier Li Keqiang, sidelined by Xi Jinping, dies at 68 (INQUIRER.net)

China's former Premier Li Keqiang has died of a sudden heart attack at age 68, state media said on Friday.

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Former Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has died: state media (The Japan Times)

The former head of China's Cabinet served under President Xi Jinping for a decade from 2013, retiring in March.

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Why Li Keqiang's death is dangerous for Xi Jinping (BBC News)

The beloved leader represents a way of potentially governing China with very different priorities.

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Li Keqiang, former Chinese premier, has died at the age of 68 (Aljazeera.com)

State media says Li Keqiang, who stepped down just nine months ago, died of a heart attack.

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How China Mourned Li Keqiang Online, Until the Censors Stepped In (The New York Times)

An outpouring on social media for Li Keqiang, the former premier who died Friday, reflected public grief for an era of greater growth and possibility.

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Li Keqiang, Chinese premier, 1955-2023 (Financial Times)

Once seen as a possible Communist party leader, he struggled to enact economic reforms under Xi Jinping.

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Li Keqiang, a Communist Chinese leader with a 'human face' (Nikkei Asia)

HONG KONG -- In late 2014, less than two years into his job as China's premier, Li Keqiang flew to Bangkok to attend a summit on regional economic coo.

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Li Keqiang obituary (The Guardian)

Outward-looking economist who served as Chinese premier during Xi Jinping's first decade as president.

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Li Keqiang, Former Chinese Premier Overshadowed by Xi, Dies at 68 (Foreign Policy)

From 2012 to 2022, Li was nominally the second-most powerful man in China. In practice, though, he was entirely eclipsed by Chinese President Xi Jinping, and ...

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Former Premier Li Keqiang, once considered a contender to lead ... (PBS NewsHour)

Li was China's No. 2 leader from 2013-23 and an advocate for private business but was left with little authority after President Xi Jinping made himself the ...

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China tightens grip as Li Keqiang's pro-market reforms retreat (Nikkei Asia)

BEIJING -- The death of former Premier Li Keqiang on Friday served as a reminder of the decline of the pro-market reformist wing of the Chinese Commun.

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