Central Party leader tapped as China’s top diplomat

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00:00 In the meantime, China's rising star and promising central party leader,

00:04 Kim Gang, swiftly burst into the world stage

00:07 when he was tapped for China's top diplomat post.

00:09 And after a series of high-level meetings,

00:12 mysteriously disappeared sometime in June.

00:15 It turns out the 57-year-old foreign service career official

00:18 was ousted from his post after an exhaustive Communist Party probe

00:22 found he had carried and covered up a love affair

00:25 while serving as China's envoy to Washington, D.C.

00:29 This, according to the Wall Street Journal.

00:31 World has it, Kim Gang engaged in an affair for the most part of his stint

00:35 as China's ambassador to the U.S. from July 2021 to January of this year.

00:41 And that secret relationship he kept from Beijing

00:44 ended with a child born out of wedlock.

00:47 Gang's career in government is practically over,

00:50 and the guy he replaced, Wang Yi,

00:52 has been tapped to head a new China's foreign ministry.