Li Keqiang, China’s former premier who stepped down this March, died in Shanghai on Friday morning at the age of 68. State broadcaster CCTV is reporting that he suffered a heart attack one day earlier.
In his decade as premier, Li steered the world’s second-largest economy through a difficult period featuring ballooning government debt, trade tensions with the US and the coronavirus pandemic.
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