Jiang Zemin Reported to Be Dead

Rumors of former Chinese Communist leader’s death have been censored, but not refuted by Beijing. The Chinese Internet was abuzz with news of his illness and possible death last night.
Jiang Zemin Reported to Be Dead
Jiang Zemin (3rd from left), former supreme leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), flanked by other top regime leaders and their wives, at the opening of the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games. Jiang is said to be hospitalized and approaching death, though other such rumors have circulated in the past. Liu Jin/AFP/Getty Images
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Jiang Zemin (third from left), former supreme leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), flanked by other top regime leaders and their wives, at the opening of the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games. The Chinese internet is abuzz with rumors of Jiang's death. (Liu Jin/AFP/Getty Images)
Matthew Robertson
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Matthew Robertson is the former China news editor for The Epoch Times. He was previously a reporter for the newspaper in Washington, D.C. In 2013 he was awarded the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi award for coverage of the Chinese regime's forced organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience.
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