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The secret story behind Xi Jinping’s disappearance, finally revealed? (OMG, a flying chair?)
WaPo ^ | November 1, 2012 | Max Fisher

Posted on 11/03/2012 4:14:06 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

Edited on 11/03/2012 4:21:27 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

The meeting turned violent. They went at it hammer and sickle. Xi Jinping tried to calm them down. He put himself physically in the crossfire and unwittingly into the path of a chair as it was thrown across the room. It hit him in the back, injuring him. Hence the absence, and the silence, and the rumours.


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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; powerstruggle; princelings; xijinping

1 posted on 11/03/2012 4:14:16 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster; Jeff Head; Tainan; hedgetrimmer; Unam Sanctam; taxesareforever; Avenger; ...

The latest addition to the long list of banned words on China’ Internet would be “chair.” LOL.


2 posted on 11/03/2012 4:16:16 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

A frying Chail?


3 posted on 11/03/2012 4:26:38 AM PDT by MuttTheHoople (Pray for Joe Biden- Proverbs 29:9)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
In China... Xi Jinping tried to calm them down. He put himself physically in the crossfire and unwittingly into the path of a chair as it was thrown across the room

Here in the US we have an empty chair that stays in the corner of the room.

4 posted on 11/03/2012 4:48:12 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (The best is the enemy of the good!)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Police are searching for this man:

5 posted on 11/03/2012 4:53:23 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

This almost makes us grateful for the quiet dignity with which our representatives comport themselves. This sounds more like the Jerry Springer show or the WWE than any governmental body.


6 posted on 11/03/2012 4:56:50 AM PDT by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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To: MuttTheHoople

Thrown by The Craw?


7 posted on 11/03/2012 5:01:48 AM PDT by Panzerlied ("We shall never surrender!")
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Of course, fifteen minutes later, everyone wanted to be hitting someone with a chair again.


8 posted on 11/03/2012 5:13:52 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Panzerlied
Thrown by The Craw?

Not the Craw! The Craw!

9 posted on 11/03/2012 5:59:44 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

Lol!


10 posted on 11/03/2012 6:00:41 AM PDT by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
access to the top level of the Chinese governing apparatus

Yes, we are familiar with the governing apparatus called an empty chair.

11 posted on 11/03/2012 6:05:53 AM PDT by newheart (The greatest trick the left ever pulled was convincing the world it was not a religion.)
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To: Izzy Dunne
Microsoft has a patent on throwing chairs. Pay up!


12 posted on 11/03/2012 6:13:19 AM PDT by magooey (The Mandate of Heaven resides in the hearts of men.)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

I feel a country song comin on.


13 posted on 11/03/2012 6:17:01 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you really want to annoy someone, point out something obvious that they are trying hard to ignore)
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To: AppyPappy

“She got the gold mine and I got the chair”


14 posted on 11/03/2012 6:44:23 AM PDT by Erasmus (Zwischen des Teufels und des tiefen, blauen Meers)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
He put himself physically in the crossfire and unwittingly into the path of a chair as it was thrown across the room

You mean Obama hit Xi Jinping?

15 posted on 11/03/2012 7:17:21 AM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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To: SunkenCiv

LOL


16 posted on 11/03/2012 7:43:36 AM PDT by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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