China's former Premier Li Keqiang died of a heart attack on Friday, just 10 months after retiring from a decade in office during which his reformist star ...
Li, China's No. 2 official until his retirement last year, suffered heart failure.
Former Chinese Premier Li Keqiang speaking at the EU-China Summit in Brussels, Belgium in 2019. Thierry Monasse/Getty Images/File. Editor's Note ...
The beloved leader represents a way of potentially governing China with very different priorities.
An outpouring on social media for Li Keqiang, the former premier who died Friday, reflected public grief for an era of greater growth and possibility.
Once seen as a possible Communist party leader, he struggled to enact economic reforms under Xi Jinping.
Reformist and one-time Communist Party leadership contender lost influence as Xi Jinping tightened grip on power.
Outward-looking economist who served as Chinese premier during Xi Jinping's first decade as president.
From 2012 to 2022, Li was nominally the second-most powerful man in China. In practice, though, he was entirely eclipsed by Chinese President Xi Jinping, and ...
Li was China's No. 2 leader from 2013-23 and an advocate for private business but was left with little authority after President Xi Jinping made himself the ...