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Former Chinese PM Li Keqiang dies of heart attack

File photo: Chinese Premier Li Keqiang waves before the EU-China Summit at the EU headquarters in Brussels on April 9, 2019. © John Thys, AFP

Former Premier Li Keqiang, China’s top economic official for a decade, died Friday of a heart attack. He was 68.

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 most powerful Chinese leader in decades and tightened control over the economy and society.

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