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    Bo Xilai (and wife)

    From BBC News - China calls for support amid Bo Xilai fall-out

    For an alternate view, read the Chinadailyshow.

    We should all firmly support correct decision of CPC Central Committee says the People's Daily.

    And it's good to know that deaths will be investigated "according to law" - does this mean that at other times they are not investigated according to the law?


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    Didn't they bury the trains in Shanghai "according to law"?


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    Quote Originally Posted by drumbrake:
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    Mail Online - Bo Xilai's son Bo Guagua's playboy lifestyle has fuelled rumours of a Beijing coup

    Last edited by East_coast; 11-04-2012 at 06:39 PM.
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    A good summary of this story here: Rectified.name

    So, bye bye Bo Xilai. Tripped up by your wife and a dead Lao Wai.
    Global Times editor Hu Xijin both on Weibo last night and in the paper this morning has been gloating about how this whole mess is really a testament to China’s rule of law. You see, we foreigners have it all wrong. We look at the situation and see a high-ranking Party official who ran his own personal fiefdom while torturing his enemies and allowing his wife to take become the Tony Montana of Chongqing. What we’re missing is the part where…No, I don’t think we’re missing anything here. That’s pretty much what happened.
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    BBC: Bo Xilai scandal: Gu Kailai charged with Heywood murder

    The wife of disgraced Chinese political leader Bo Xilai has been charged with the murder of UK businessman Neil Heywood, state news agency Xinhua says.

    Gu Kailai and Zhang Xiaojun, employed at Mr Bo's home, were "recently" prosecuted by a Chinese court, Xinhua said, without giving further details.

    Mr Heywood was found dead in a hotel in Chongqing on 15 November 2011.
    Good to see justice being seen to be done in China.

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    Anyone any clue as to what really happened?


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    Quote Originally Posted by MovingIn07:
    Anyone any clue as to what really happened?
    No idea but perhaps?
    "A British chancer was a bit skint so he tried to tap up his old business acquaintance (who was powerful and corrupt) for some money but pushed a little to hard"

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    Quote Originally Posted by East_coast:
    No idea but perhaps?
    "A British chancer was a bit skint so he tried to tap up his old business acquaintance (who was powerful and corrupt) for some money but pushed a little to hard"
    I think it was more the case of the British chancer knowing too much about the corrupt practices of a high ranking Party official and his wife, and then wanting to get out, which led to the wife (and perhaps the husband) deciding that dead men cannot talk.
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    What ever happened is 'irrefutable' according to Xinhua so that's that. Not much else to say or do. Don't know why there is even a trial.

    "The facts of the two defendants' crime are clear, and the evidence is irrefutable and substantial," said the agency's report, which was also read out on state television.
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    So she probably did do it then? It seems like you cannot be certain even of that in Chinese court proceedings. I was wondering if anyone was going to say "it was a fit-up to discredit Bo".


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