None of the footage – either that released on Saturday or Tuesday – has been broadcast in China. Moments later, a second aide hurries over, receives an instruction from Xi, then speaks to an apparently nonplussed Hu.Īs per the footage that circulated on Saturday, Hu – who appears reluctant to leave – is then lifted from his chair, taken by the arm and escorted out.Ĭhina's former leader Hu Jintao is lifted from his chair by a young aide at the closing of the Communist Party Congress on Saturday. Xi, who is sat on Hu’s other side, glances at the exchanges and summons a senior aide to whom he speaks briefly. When Hu then reaches for the documents, Li pulls them away.
It shows Li Zhanshu, the party’s outgoing number-three official, who is sitting next to Hu at the front table on stage, take the documents from Hu’s hand and place them under a red folder.
The footage, released by Singapore broadcaster CNA on Tuesday, shows a series of high-level exchanges between senior party leaders, in which Hu is repeatedly prevented from looking at official documents in front of him. Tingshu Wang/Reutersįormer Chinese leader Hu Jintao unexpectedly led out of room as Party Congress comes to a close Former Chinese leader Hu Jintao leaves his seat next to leader Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang, during the closing ceremony of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China on Saturday.
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