Newsweek Article Rating

China's defense chief Li Shangfu joins list of missing senior officials

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    8% Center

  • Reliability

    55% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    8% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    6% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : ""On the new journey, the general offices ought to resolutely uphold the Party Central Committee's centralized and unified leadership and always follow the Party Central Committee closely in thought, political stance and action," Xi noted.
51% : The general was last seen in public on August 29.Unnamed U.S. officials believe he is at the center of an investigation, according to a report in the Financial Times.
51% : One of his last public engagements was a meeting with former U.S. secretary of state Henry Kissinger on July 18 in Beijing.
34% : ""First, Foreign Minister Qin Gang goes missing, then the Rocket Force commanders go missing, and now Defense Minister Li Shangfu hasn't been seen in public for two weeks," he wrote.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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