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Hu Jintao: Fresh China congress footage deepens mystery over exit<\/a><\/p>\n
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By Fan Wang<\/div>\n
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Fresh footage has emerged showing more of what happened before China’s former leader Hu Jintao was dramatically led out of a session during last week’s Communist Party Congress in Beijing. <\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It shows in greater detail how outgoing Politburo member Li Zhanshu, to Mr Hu’s left, takes a file away and speaks to him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Then China’s current leader Xi Jinping gives lengthy instructions to another man who subsequently attempts to persuade Mr Hu to leave.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The unexpected moment led to intense speculation, with some arguing that it was a deliberate power play by Mr Xi to show that the more consensus-driven Hu era was definitively over while others suggested it could have been because of Mr Hu’s poor health.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The official Xinhua news agency later tweeted that Mr Hu had been escorted from the chamber after feeling unwell – but it did not report that domestically. Twitter is blocked to users in China. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The moment unfolded the day before Mr Xi announced his third term and his top team of loyalists – both the timing and the fact that Chinese politics are so opaque sparked a global guessing game as to what had happened. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Many wondered if it was a deliberate piece of political theatre. Unlike Mr Hu, whose presidency between 2003 and 2013 was seen as a time of opening up to the outside world, Mr Xi has presided over a country that has become increasingly isolated. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The new footage, filmed by Singapore-based Channel News Asia<\/a>, does not debunk the official line that Mr Hu was ill. But it also suggests that Mr Hu’s handling of the document in front of him played a role in the incident.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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