Hours after China¡¯s top legislature convened a special meeting last week to remove Foreign Minister Qin Gang, photos and mentions of the 57-year-old started disappearing from his former ministry¡¯s website.

While some of this information reappeared days later, Qin does not feature on the website¡¯s list of ¡°former ministers,¡± and for several more days a search for his name had been turning up: ¡°Sorry, Qin Gang is not found.¡±

In fact, he has not been seen in public for more than a month.