BEIJING – Every year, questions thrown up at the foreign minister’s annual news conference on the sidelines of China’s parliamentary meetings almost always, predictably, centre on the country’s foreign policy and relations with other nations, blocs and regions.

But this year, the last question posed was not the typical diplomacy query.

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