Quote: Whatever the trigger, Qin, 57, was arrested and investigated soon after his June disappearance, the senior administration official said. In the version recounted by the former U.S. official, the foreign minister didn’t know of his lover’s purported intelligence ties and tried to kill himself after confronted with the information. According to this account, Qin was hospitalized at a special facility for senior Chinese military and political officials, known as “Hospital 301.” There’s no independent confirmation of that.