CHINA-LEADERSHIP: NPC CHAIRMAN AND PBSC MEMBER LI ZHANSHU UNDERTAKES FIRST TRIP ABROAD SINCE ONSET OF COVID PANDEMIC
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Xinhua (September 4) reported that Politburo Standing Committee member and NPC
Chairman Li Zhanshu began his first trip abroad (since the onset of Covid) with a visit to Russia to attend the seventh Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok on September 7. He is scheduled
to thereafter visit Mongolia, Nepal, and South Korea till September 17. He will arrive in Nepal
on September 12 where he is scheduled to meet Nepal's President Bidya Devi Bhandari and
Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba. He has been invited by the Speaker of the House of
Representatives Agni Prasad Sapkota.
(Comment: Li Zhanshu is the first member of the PBSC to travel abroad since the outbreak of
the Covid pandemic. This appears to be Li Zhanshu's final foreign tour before the 20th Party
Congress and probably he steps down from the PBSC in March 2023.)
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