China’s Missing Ex-Foreign Minister Qin Gang Steps Down From Rubber-Stamp Parliament

Mr. Qin is still absent from public view.

Former China's Foreign Minister Qin Gang (2nd R) and China's Ambassador to the Philippines Huang Xilian (R) attend a meeting with Philippine Foreign Secretary Enrique Manalo at the Diamond Hotel in Metro Manila on April 22, 2023. Gerard Carreon/Pool/AFP via Getty Images

Qin Gang, China’s former foreign minister, has resigned from the country’s rubber-stamp parliament nearly eight months after he disappeared from public view.

In a formal statement issued on Tuesday, Beijing said Mr. Qin has stepped down from its rubber-stamp legislature, the National People’s Congress (NPC). The top body of Tianjin Municipal NPC has accepted his resignation as a deputy, it added.