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It can be lonely at the top. And that’s just how China’s leader likes it

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“It can be lonely at the top. And that’s just how China’s leader likes it”

Hong Kong — Last week Beijing’s deputy mayor was meeting with Walmart CEO John Furner and encouraging American companies to invest in the Chinese capital. Now he has vanished from public life, the latest to be swept up in an anti-corruption campaign that has ensnared a galaxy of China’s talent: a former top judge, a spy … The post It can be lonely at the top. And that’s just how China’s leader likes it appeared first on Egypt Independent .

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