Updated 00:13 | Published 00:12
TV star Fu Xiaotian took a selfie on the flight home.
She has not been seen since.
Now the disappearance is linked to another mystery.
Fu Xiaotian has not been heard from since April 10. Then she wrote to her followers that she intended to travel home to Beijing from Los Angeles.
“The last time I flew this plane by myself was from Los Angeles to Washington for a business trip. It is both gratifying and sad that it turned out to be the last interview I did for “Conversations with World Leaders,” she wrote at the time, referring to the program she hosted on Chinese television.
Connects to previous mystery
The TV star also published a selfie from the airplane seat with her son in her arms.
Since then, there has been silence from Fu Xiaotian, writes the New York Post.
It is said to be unclear if she even landed in China after her post in April.
All speculations and information about her have been removed from Chinese social media.
According to censored information from inside China, her disappearance is linked to another mystery that captivated the world this spring, the newspaper writes.
Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang was fired by the regime in July.
Had children in the US
By then, the 57-year-old had already been removed from his post for several months without explanation. The mystery led to much speculation about what was behind it.
Qin Gang was previously close to China’s leader Xi Jingping and was removed just seven months after he was given the top post in the government.
During Tuesday wrote The Wall Street Journalciting diplomatic sources, that an extramarital affair must have been behind Gang’s firing.
According to the information, he allegedly had a mistress during his time as China’s ambassador in Washington. The post had Qin Gang from July 2021 to January this year.
The affair is said to have also led to a child who was born in the United States.
Met on TV
Qin Gang has not been seen in public since he was forced to leave the government.
The information provided by The Wall Street Journal does not include the name of the woman who had an alleged affair with the then-married ambassador.
But persistent rumors in China suggest that Fu Xiaotian is the secret mistress and that Qin Gang is the father of her son, writes the New York Post.
She was stationed in the United States during Qin Gang’s time as ambassador to the country. He was also one of her interviewees on the TV show.
In her private Instagram account, Fu Xiaotian wrote before the disappearance that the father of her son “is not American” and that she was “looking forward to returning to her homeland with him.”
Investigates threats to national security
According to The Wall Street Journal, top Chinese officials were briefed on the investigation into the former foreign minister in August. Then they stated the reason why he was fired as “question marks about his lifestyle”.
The investigation against Qin Gang is said to be still ongoing. According to the newspaper’s sources, it is investigating whether the alleged affair and other actions he may have carried out while in the United States may have threatened China’s national security.
He is said to be cooperating with the regime during the investigation.
Mao Ning, spokesperson for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was asked about The Wall Street Journal’s publication in a press conference on Tuesday.
– I know nothing about the information you refer to, she said according to Reuters.