Mike Forsythe (傅才德), a Beijing-based reporter for Bloomberg News posted the photo of Jiang Zemin with Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz in Beijing last month.
The conversation details can not be published because the news agency has not been authorized to release the the content of the meeting.
Jiang Zemin was last seen on October 9 last year in Beijing attending the 100th anniversary of Xinhai Revolution.
last December, Xinhua News Agency published Jiang’s foreword for the book “Foreign Affairs terminology for cadres”, the article was inscribed on September 28.