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Hu Jintao incident spoils Xi’s party

Stewards take hold of former president Hu Jintao to lead him out of the hall during the closing ceremony of the Chinese Communist Party Congress on Saturday, as President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang look on. (AFP Photo)

BEIJING: Former Chinese president Hu Jintao was unexpectedly led out of Saturday’s closing ceremony of the Communist Party Congress in a dramatic moment that disrupted the highly choreographed event.

Hu’s departure was left unexplained, and the country’s censors appeared to quickly scrub any recent references to him from the internet.

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