Xi Jinping's disappearance? He may have just been busy -- scholar

China's leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping probably disappeared from public view for two weeks because he was too busy preparing for the forthcoming 18th National Congress of China's Communist Party, a Taiwanese scholar suggested Saturday.

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