Chinese State Councilor and Defense Director Li Shangfu has not appeared publicly for three consecutive weeks. His go has become the latest mystery of Chinese politics.

Reuters reported on Thursday (September 14) that Li Shangfu was planned to participate in an annual defense cooperation annual meeting held on the China -Vietnam border from September 7th to 8th, but Vietnam was informed before the meeting.Because of Li Shangfu's "health status", the meeting was delayed.

Vietnamese attaches great importance to this activity. The local media reported at the end of August that in addition to the meeting of the delegations between the two sides, the original agenda also included a welcome ceremony for the two countries in the ports of the two countries,wait.

Financial Times also quoted sources last Thursday that Washington believes that Li Shangfu is under investigation and has been lifted.

In the context of the former foreign minister Qin Gang was dismissed and the PLA Rocket Army was replaced and the investigation was being checked, Li Shangfu did not show up for several weeks, and suddenly canceled the previously arranged official activities to increaseThe outside world's speculation on him.

The discussion about the go of Li Shangfu, in fact, it has been passed for a while in the circle of social media outside China and Chinese political observer.

Rahm Emanuel, the US Ambassador to Japan, publicly discussed this in the early September social media X (formerly known as Twitter), and used the masterpiece of British suspense writer Agatha Christie to be uninhabited as a metaphor for a metaphor.: "First of all, the foreign minister Qin Gang disappeared, and then the commander of the Rocket Army disappeared. Now the Defense Director Li Shangfu has not appeared publicly for two weeks."

Emmanuel also borrowed the phenomenon of high unemployment rates in China and asked, "Who will win this unemployment competition? Chinese youth or China's official cabinet?"

This post is ironic, and such a pointed to ridicule the internal problems of other countries is not in line with the status of diplomats.However, the problems made by Emannire really attracted much attention.

65 -year -old Li Shangfu is the second generation of the Red, his father Li Shaozhu is a famous Red Army. He used to be deputy commander of the Southwest Command of the PLA Railway.Li Shangfu has worked at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, which belongs to the military for more than 30 years. In 2013, he served as chief of staff of the Command Department of the General Equipment Department.

In early 2016, Li Shangfu became the deputy commander and chief of staff of the newly established PLA strategic support forces. In September of the following year, he replaced Zhang Youxia and served as the Minister of Equipment Development of the Central Military Commission.

After the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in October last year, Li Shangfu became a member of the Central Military Commission. In March of this year, the Chinese government replaced Wei Fenghe as the Defense Minister. At the same time, he became one of the five state members."Human" sequence.

There are various questions around Li Shangfu's disappearance.First of all, is he really "accidents"?Reuters quoted sources that he involved the problem of corruption in military equipment.Chinese officials have not responded or confirmed, and there are no other clues to be judged at present.However, in Chinese politics, politicians are absent from official duties for a long time. If it is not for health, it is likely to be suspended for investigation.

It is worth noting that in July this year, the Equipment Development Department of the Central Military Commission decided to carry out the illegal violation of the rules and discipline inspections of equipment procurement and bidding review experts, and publicly solicited the clues of violations of regulations and discipline since October 2017. This time is with Li Shangfu with Li ShangfuThe time to take over the department is highly overwhelmed.

Secondly, if Li Shangfu really comes to corruption as rumors say, will the impact further expand?

The PLA Strategic Army Rocket Army has faced a large cleaning not long ago, and the commanders and the political commissar are replaced.It is reported that this series of investigations were launched after the former defense chief and the first commander of the Rocket Army after the Rocket Army.If the anti -corruption storm blows to Li Shangfu, then how many people will be involved in this rectification, and how much corruption in stock is, it is a question in everyone's heart.

The new Chinese government was established for only half a year. Two high -level high -level high -level high -level high -level high -level officials came out. It was unusual and incredible.

At the end of June, Qin Gang suddenly disappeared, and he rumored that he had a scandal.The Wall Street Journal quoted on Tuesday (September 19) that people familiar with the matter said that Qin Gang was removed from office for "life style problem".However, the official has not explained publicly so far.Today, the guessing game is staged around another deputy national official, and the opaque of the Chinese system is difficult to be questioned.

Qin Gang and Li Zifu were all promoted and reused after the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.Under the reality of high concentration of power in China, these high -dry must be politically trusted politically to stand out.From a positive point of view, the CCP has not strictly governing the party. It is difficult to escape accountability whether there is a mistake in the background and level of officials.But this is also difficult to not make people doubt about the selection and assessment of officials, including whether the background review before appointment is omissions.

Qin Li is actually not the final decision maker of Chinese diplomacy and military, but both are the "facade" in these two fields.The sudden disappearance of the two is very puzzled, and they will also worry about the stability of dealing with the official Chinese officials.Beijing may still need time to understand the specific situation. It is inconvenient to disclose the problems and details involved in these high -dryness earlier, but keep silent again and again, and let various speculations fermentation. This can only be clearly felt that the Chinese system and system andReality is different from other places.