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In live footage shot by Agence France-Presse, apart from the main theme, Hu Jintao, former Secretary General of the Party, was unwillingly escorted out of the Party’s 20th's National Congress. A sideline might bear the clue to the mystery of why this was happening: It transpired when Hu Jintao tried to read part of a document that was distributed by the Congress. Both Li Zhanshu — a politburo Standing Committee member and Xi Jinping confidant — and Xi himself stopped him.

Why did they not let Hu read a document that everyone attending the meeting had? Why did Li Keqiang and Wang Yang put on a poker face the whole time? Simone Gao discovered that one important meeting Hu Jintao was absent from might explain what happened at the Party’s conclave.

 

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On March 30, 2022, at 10:30am, a page was turned for the Emile Huchet coal-fired power plant in eastern France. The station closed its doors and stopped generating electricity. But now, more than 300,000 tonnes are once again piling up. Workers have been called back in, as the plant prepares to resume production.

Like everywhere else in Europe, gas supplies are limited. But France's energy autonomy is also being undermined by two factors in particular. Out of a fleet of 56 nuclear reactors, nearly half have been shut down – a source of energy that normally accounts for 70 percent of the country's electricity. Meanwhile, hydroelectric dams, France's second source of energy, have been operating at 62 percent of their capacity, following a summer of intense heat and drought.
 
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