Jiang Zemin Hospitalized, Near Death, Internet Rumors Say

Jiang Zemin, former supreme leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is said to be hospitalized and approaching death, according to a flurry of recent microblog comments and online rumors.
Jiang Zemin Hospitalized, Near Death, Internet Rumors Say
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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<a><img src="https://www.theepochtimes.com/assets/uploads/2015/09/weeds82689524-2.jpg" alt="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)" title="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)" width="320" class="size-medium wp-image-1801328"/></a>
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)
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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