Bo Xilai (born 3 July 1949) is a Chinese politician.

Bo Guagua Xi Jinping Wang Lijun John Garnaut Overseas Press Club Chinese Communist Party

.on Bo Xilai crisis: "The government was completely on their back foot because we in the media were defining the narrative."

Bo Xilai confidants feel the squeeze in Chongqing, says Duowei

Bo Xilai still too hot a potato for Chinese justice system

interesting piece, but Bo is the surname, Xilai given name

Bo Xilai confidants feel the squeeze in Chongqing

Bo Xilai confidants feel the squeeze in Chongqing: Sun Zhengcai, the current party secretary…

A Death in the Lucky Holiday Hotel by Pin *** & Wenguang Huang Thrilling book about the Bo Xilai affair. China Noir

Jamie FlorCruz has such a cool life story. Doesn't even mention that he went to college with Bo Xilai

Nice. Jeremy Page nabs Overseas Press Club award for his fantastic reporting on Bo Xilai:

Congrats to Jeremy Page of WSJ for OPC award on coverage of Neil Heywood + Bo Xilai.

Congrats to the amazing Jeremy Page at WSJ for winning OPC award for running circles around all of us with his Bo Xilai coverage last year

well deserved Overseas Press Club award for for his work on Heywood Murder and fall of Bo Xilai

Murder, Money, and an Epic Power Struggle in – the Bo Xilai affair

Top of the morning to you :-) Pete in for Phil Whelan all this week. As usual, plenty of cheery music from 9.30... Then on today's show, being a Tuesday, as usual it's Asia and the world according to Harvey Stockwin, our weekend audio columnist who presents Reflections From Asia. Possible topics on his hitlist: 1. THE NATIONAL PEOPLES CONGRESS SESSION - what will it tell us about he Chinese Communist Party? 2. Whatever has happened, will now happen, to Bo Xilai? Will we learn anything from the NPC ?? 3. Democratic Failure to compromise --- (a) United States: by the Republicans and Democrats. Amazingly, the sequester gets through (b) South Korea: President Park fails to get her cabinet approved 4. US does not recognise North Korea --but a former basket ball star does, and the media gives him publicityas he extols the Kim Dynastic Dictatorship 5. How long will it take to appoint a new Pope ? Following the first papal retirement in 598 years. Don't forget your thoughts and comments are also welcom ...

On the scale of Ghandi to Al Sharpton, Bo Xilai's hunger strike ranks ***

I'm currently discussing just how delicious Bo Xilai’s food will be in prison. Alex assures me it's fantastic.

Congrats to who got two of the four: - Karl Marx, Abe Lincoln.

We're revealing the answers in the Bo Xilai beard-guessing game in 45 minutes:

Reading interesting articles concerning Bo but the question is whether the trial is convered in anything close to public consumption

Bo Xilai 'goes on hunger strike' as corruption probe drags on

FEATURE: Bo Xilai Starving Himself, Growing Beard for Role as Prospero in Jailhouse Production of The Tempest

Garnaut says support for Bo grows before China’s ‘trial of the century’ questions recent reuters report on Bo Xilai

Garnaut reports momentum for Bo Xilai trial slowed by revelations of rival Chinese leaders' misbegotten wealth

Bearded, emaciated 'raising Cain' in prison. Blog post by

It's not too late to join the Bo Xilai beard-guessing game:

China's disgraced politician Bo Xilai to appear in court next week - RTE.ie

More twists and turns in the Bo Xilai story. His support grows, writes John Garnaut.

Bo Xilai must be China's answer to ZZ Top. He's bad, he's nation-wide!

(They say the sound quality is really crisp.) "Rumor: has VIDEO of Bo Xilai's beard growing."

Rumor: has VIDEO of Bo Xilai's beard growing.

Disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai is on hunger strike, HAS A CHEST-LENGTH BEARD:

I guess the real story is that Bo Xilai thinks he still has a future. Not willing to give up the fight.

The most news we've gotten about Bo Xilai in months, and it's that he's got a beard. Fits in with all the other weird stuff in this story.

Bo Xilai Apparently Has A Chest-Length Beard, Maybe Like This?: Not only has the Bo Xilai trial still not happened…

China's Bo Xilai not cooperating on probe, been on hunger strike: sources

'A dead pig has no fear of boiling soup'. I'll remember that. (John Garnaut on Bo Xilai)

Lots of questions over whether Bo Xilai can grow chest-length beard after 9 months in detention. Let's ask

Detailed, logical and yet gripping account of the China's Powerful politician Bo Xilai's fall from grace,

CDT's reviews two e-books about the fall of Bo Xilai for the Cairo Review:

Bo Xilai case reveals that, 4 all its talk of unity/harmony, CCP is still "driven by egos, feuds, and factionalism"

What Bo Xilai's fall reveals; smart review of 2 books on topic by of in Cairo Revew:

There's no evolution: What Xilai's upcoming trial says about the evolution of legal system

I just listed: 'Bloomberg Businessweek Magazine (Lies Lies Lies: The fall of Bo Xilai reve...', for $0.99 via

The playwright wanted to see &produced in mainland China, but says the Bo Xilai and Gu Kail ...

father was just talking about him say what he confirm gg cannot act cause he was close to Bo Xilai and is part of

Via What Bo Xilai's upcoming trial says about the evolution of China's legal system

Rewarded for Torture: The Rise of Bo Xilai in China | Part 2 CCP Barbarism, corruption- Liaoning,Shenyang.

The downfall of Chinese politician - by Sun Meilan - Helium

Bo Xilai's upcoming trial will be a dud. And that's precisely the point.

Knives Coming Out for Bo Xilai's friend Zhou Yongkang? This one deserves it. Hopefully others pile on.

One year on, Bo Xilai scandal haunts Chongqing

China Focus - Is Bo Xilai a Scapegoat for the CCP's Crimes? (

BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese court rules on Thursday whether to award damages to a man who spent a year in a labor camp for an online joke about now disgraced leader Bo Xilai, although experts say compensation,

Revealed: emerging trends behind China's anti-corruption drive Reblog of Ernest Kao’s blog at SCMP on Wednesday, 30 January, 2013, Since Xi Jinping took the reins as the party chief last year, he has made several pledges to fight corruption in China. Those who don't make the cut, he has stressed, will be purged. The epic Bo Xilai saga aside, “violations of party discipline” (a fancier name for graft) have so far revolved around many of the same offences, namely embezzlement, bribery, nepotism and abuse of power. While 2011 was all about misbehaving fuerdai (rich second generation) political brats crashing sports cars, 2012 was all about officials getting grilled for possessing ridiculous amounts of personal assets such as property, money and recently, expensive watches. Fake hukous seem to be the “it” corruption offence of late. Sex scandals are also on the rise, and because of Sina Weibo, they are becoming increasingly humiliating for exposed officials. China blog Danwei billed 2012 the annus h ...

Former Communist Party rising star Bo Xilai to go on trial next week: report

Criminal defense specialist Li Guifang - participated in revising China Crim Pro Law - now to defend Bo Xilai in court

Bo Xilai's counsel will be Li Guifang, a prominent Western-trained lawyer in Beijing. Was he state or Bo-appointed?

Former student at University of Leeds to defend Bo Xilai in court: The disgraced politician at...

"Lawyers are like taxi drivers. They should serve whoever pays them" - Bo Xilai's lawyer in 2006

No word on trial, but Bo Xilai does now have a lawyer

Introduction: The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has been troubled of late by widespread social unrest, slowing economic growth, and rampant official corruption as revealed by the Bo Xilai scandal. Less obvious to the outside world, however, have been the two sharply contrasting and controversial perspectives on the country’s near- to medium-term future that are now locked in mutual contention. These two rival scenarios reflect fundamentally different assessments of the socioeconomic situation and likely political trajectory of the world’s most populous country. The first scenario envisions an abrupt bottom-up revolution. This assessment has recently generated much heated intellectual and political debate in the PRC. In December 2011, the thirty-year-old best-selling author Han Han (China’s most popular blogger whose site has registered well over 580 million hits) posted a now-famous essay titled “On Revolution.” Although Han argues that “revolution is hardly a good option for China,” hi ...

Bo Xilai, Wang Lijun, and the prof known as father of China's firewall

Crazy story of Wang Lijun and his role in the Bo Xilai scandal. All the makings of a good book or movie.

Case of Bo Xilai, former member of the CPC Central Committee's Political Bureau, was transferred to judicial organs.

Bo Xilai and Xi Jinping: the divergent paths of China's 'Princelings'

2 roads diverged...and Xi took..key news "Bo Xilai and Xi Jinping: China's 'princelings'

Surviving Bo Xilai's reign of red terror SCMP’s investigation finds what tyranny Chongqing was under when Bo Xilai was the party boss there. The persecution of defense lawyer was already a clear sign of the despotism there, but Bo remained media’s favorite in spite of that. I sometimes wonder with such charm to infatuate common people and the media, Xi might have easily been elected Chinese president if there had been a democratic presidential election in China before Bo’s downfall. Full text of SCMP’s report from Chongqing is given below: In the second part of our Revisiting Chongqing series, we meet the people punished harshly for even the smallest gesture of dissent against Bo Xilai On a two-hour flight from Beijing to Chongqing early this month, Ren Jianyu spent most of the time with his face pressed against the window, watching the clouds streak past. At one point he murmured: "This is freedom." The 25-year-old former village official was freed late last month after serving 15 months in a Cho ...

Ma w/good summary:where the CCP is post-Bo Xilai,we're not really post-Bo, he's down, but what will his punishment be?

Bo Xilai and Xi Jinping: The diverging paths of China's 'princelings'

charts the divergent paths of Bo Xilai and Xi Jinping.

Bo Xilai and Xi Jinping: The Divergent Paths of China's 'Princelings': The standard-bearers of China's political...

News Update China year review 2012: Xi Jinping and Bo Xilai - Chinese leaders will be keen to forget 2012, a year in which preparations for the country's once-in-a-decade leadership transition were overshadowed by the catastrophic fall-out from the ghoulish murder of a British businessman.

No independent reporting on Chongqing "beat black" campaign, esp. Bo Xilai and Wang Lijun.

Who will succeed Hu Jintao as the President of China? a) Bo Xilai b) Den Guangle c) Li Keqiang d) Xi Jinping

Plz Flw Bo Xilai kicked out of China's Communist Party - Disgraced politician Bo Xilai has...

Weeks after Wang Lijun was sentenced to prison, more details have begun to surface about the flamboyant style of the former anti-triad hero who played a central role in the scandal that felled the ex-Politburo member Bo Xilai.

.The police chief in that story was also tangled in the Bo Xilai scandal. China needs a Kevin-Bacon-scandal game.

One might wonder when Bo Xilai scandal will end. Bigger question is whether Xi and Li will use this to bring change:

Great article on search for justice & anti-corruption fight in post-Bo Xilai

China is today the world’s second largest economy and “the world’s factory” for the global commodity chains steered by the transnational corporations of the Triad – North America, western Europe and Japan – and one of the most important sources of their profits. If and when its economy runs out of s...

Disgraced Chinese official Bo Xilai has been moved to a luxury prison in Beijing, according to the Epoch Times Newspaper, citing an internal source.

China frees jailed opponent of Bo Xilai

Chongqing Sex Scandal Grows, 5 More Officials Involved Chongqing Party Discipline Inspection Commission said yesterday that it was extending its investigation that began after the posting of a photo of District Party Secretary Lei Zhengfu having sex with a young mistress. The Commission vowed that it had “zero tolerance” for violation of law or discipline by leading cadres and would make investigation whenever there is a clue. In fact, it is an easy job for the Commission to discover such malpractices. Chinese people know well the rampant malpractices of corruption and keeping mistresses among party officials; therefore I gave my post the day before yesterday the title “Corruption, Mistress Common, Those Caught Are Unlucky Ones”. According to Singtao Daily, a whistleblower has disclosed that there are sex videos of five more bureau-level officials. SCMP reveals in its report today that the whistleblower is Zhu Ruifen who has released the sex video involving Lei Zhengfu and said he has the said vid ...

Lonnie Hodge: "One thing China has: Much better sex scandals than the US..."

Sex, Lies and Chinese Video Tape. Their sex scandals are much more fascinating than ours

China RED EARS!! Enjoy it : ) Beijing Cream this story is blowing up: Lei Zhengfu, his...

More details have emerged about disgraced Chongqing official Lei Zhengfu and his 18-year-old mistress, a sex-tape of whom was leaked last week. Zhu Ruifeng, the Chinese reporter who originally broke the story, has identified the woman in the video as Zhao Hongxia (seen below), who was one of a

Chongqing sex tape official - gt account by Paints Wang Lijun as a kind of sinister "Mr Fixit".

book found at HK airport, Bo Xilai and his Harem

The Chongqing sex scandal has been raised to the power of Bo Xilai + Wang Lijun:

Diedra Dukas liked In the Rise and Fall of Bo Xilai, an Arc of Ruthlessness: Bo Xilai's talents, charisma and…

I think I saw that movie... “Chongqing sex scandal femme fatale revealed.

Rebbeca Tingley liked Bo Xilai's Son Ticketed in Porsche: Bo Guagua, the Chinese "princeling" at Harvard and son of…

Healthy for Chinese society if whistleblowers stepping up to take veil of official corruption

Sex, Bribes and Videotape...in Bo Xilai and Wang Lijun may be involved?! (via

The gulf between circumstances of the children and the lavish surroundings of the recent Communist Party congress highlights the deep social divide in China.

The sex tape plot thickens. dontcha just love China?

Incredible how wide corrupt guanxi webs are. Try to untangle them and you can probably connect almost anyone w/ power.

China sex tape scandal just got more interesting construction firm offered mistresses as bribes, Wang Lijun involved

Bo Xilai critic freed from labor camp A former Chongqing official has been released from a labor camp last week aft...

A Chinese government official jailed for daring to criticise Bo Xilai, the disgraced politician linked to the murder of British businessman Neil...

Bo Xilai critic freed from labor camp via

Bo Xilai critic freed from labor camp

Bo Xilai critic freed from labor camp - Shanghaiist

At a routine meeting on March 28, the State Council decided to launch a financial reform pilot project in Wenzhou. The decision mentions 12 tasks assigned to the project, but people have no idea that it was the beginning of a radical reform. They thought think that it merely aimed at making loans available for small and medium-sized private enterprises. However, it in fact aimed at removing state-owned enterprises’ monopoly of the financial sector. In a speech the same day, Premier Wen Jiabao said that it was too easy for state-owned banks to make money as there is no competition from the private sector. Word Bank’s report also suggests breaking the monopoly of state-owned enterprises. In my previous post, I mentioned China’s three previous waves of economic liberalization: Liberation of the agricultural sector by Zhao Ziyang; initial liberation of the industrial sector by allowing the private sector by Zhao Ziyang, Jiang Zemin and Zhu Rongji and transforming the state-owned sector (selling small en ...

China frees jailed opponent of Bo Xilai - Bangkok Post

"Bo Xilai was a brilliant politician, destroyed and slandered. He was to become number 1." Jean-Luc Domenach, Sciences Po, Ceri, Paris.

Marianela Keala liked Bo's Ties to Army Alarmed Beijing: Bo Xilai's ties to the military and his irregular use of…

Thoughts on China’s New Leaders: Conservative Immobility or Streamlined Decisions? Western pundits have pronounced China’s new leadership team “conservative,” meaning reactionary old communists who won’t be able to get anything done. After all, our favorites got left out. Wang Yang, who solved a village crisis in Guangdong with democratic reform, didn’t make it. Nor did my personal favorite, Li Yuanchao, who had made a “democratic personality” prerequisite for high promotion. Wang Qishan, the vigorous market-oriented reformer, got put in charge of discipline rather than the economy. Hence the conclusion that bureaucrats and reactionaries are in charge. But that is not the Chinese view. In Chinese terms this leadership is centrist and stripped down to get things moving. Both the charismatic reactionaries (Bo Xilai) and the charismatic reformers (Wang Yang) have been sidelined as disruptive, the reactionaries much more decisively. (Imagine Washington with a ban on the Tea Party and ...

New head of party's discipline commission is a troubleshooter who gets results, analysts say

How committed is the Chinese leadership to the rule of law?

Bo Xilai's trial a platform for moralisation drive by Wang Qishan, will this extend to the families of politburo members?

Finished the $2.64 summary of Bo Xilai news by John Garnaut. Quick read, nice background on the whole situation.

Honestly, I found your Bo Xilai editorial "Dude, seriously?" a bit wordy.

SCMP reports: “Communist Party officials in Chongqing confirmed district official Lei Zhengfu was the man in recent sex photos and videos leaked online, the People’s Daily reported on Friday. “Lei ...

Video footage of Chongqing official having sex is leaked as separate alleged philanderer faces 'extortion plot'

I love that all articles in Western media about Chinese corruption are illustrated with a photo of Bo Xilai. Poor guy can't catch a break.

Lauri Kolikas liked Son of Bo Xilai Reacts to News Media Coverage: Writing in a letter to The Crimson, Harvard's…

have you considered selling matching Bo xilai mask and condoms set?

Ex-journalist's blog on street children's death sees him forcibly deported to unknown location

Chinese official speaks out after being jailed for criticising Bo Xilai

Why did the Bo-Xilai scandal take so long to break, and why is much of it still discussed only in whispers?

“Long live the glorious Communist Party of Vietnam,” proclaims one of the many red-and-y... - The View from the West - Winnipeg Free Press.

Red Song Rebel Released after Terror in Labor Camp Ren Jianyu, 25, a college graduate appointed by the party to be a village official at Pengshui County, Chongqing, denounced Bo Xilai’s sing-red campaign in his microblog. Last September, Chongqing police accused him of the crime of instigating to overthrow the state power and gave him a verdict of two-year imprisonment in a reeducation labor camp. The verdict has roused widespread concern among Chongqing people. On the afternoon of November 19, Chongqing Labor Reeducation Committee crashed the verdict claiming that “the verdict was inappropriately given” and released Ren from Jiangjin District labor camp. Earlier in October this year, Ren sued the Committee for violation of the law in imprisoning him in the labor camp. A verdict on his case was given yesterday by Chongqing No. 3 Intermediate People’s Court to dismiss Ren’s claim on the ground that the legal period of time allowed for the litigation had expired. Ren said, “I have tremendously l ...

There is new evidence that Gu Kailai, the wife of disgraced former Chinese Communist Party politician Bo Xilai, was involved in selling the organs of prisoners of conscience.

China appoints a new Communist Party chief in Chongqing, the city once led by disgraced politician Bo Xilai.

China's New Leader Warns Against Corruption China's new leader Xi Jinping has warned officials that they must fight corruption or risk ruining the country, strong words that come after a series of corruption investigations targeted high-level leaders in recent years. Xi told the new 25-member Politburo that the party must be vigilant against graft, noting that corruption in other countries in recent years had prompted major social unrest and the collapse of governments, the official Xinhua News Agency reported on Monday. "The large number of facts tells us that if the problem of corruption becomes increasingly severe, it will lead to the ruin of the party and the country," Xi said. In his remarks, Xi dwelled at length on the importance of the party's theoretical foundations in Marxism, Leninism and the ideas espoused by his predecessors, and said leaders had to be mindful of the practical realities of running the country and reconnecting with the population. "In recent years, within our party there have b ...

Why is John Garnaut's Bo Xilai book now unavailable in the US?

The crazy lady I've always suspected of being the Bowen Road dog poisoner was on queens road and walking a DOG today. So bang goes my theory. That said, she was brandishing a piece of BBQ pork and shouting "fBo Xilai" so anything is possible.

MT Amazing story about Briton Neil Heywood's ties to MI6 in Bo Xilai case. By Jeremy Page via

Bo Xilai formally expelled from Communist Party of China

Bo Xilai talk: Bo Guagua just said in email to NYT that the news of his arrival in China "is completely without basis."

Bo Xilai's son, Bo Guagua, returns to China for father's trial

Bo Xilai's son returns to China to play role in father's 'imminent' trial: The son of Bo Xilai, the fallen Commu...

Disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai's son defends him over social media | (via

Bo Guagua defends his father, Bo Xilai's integrity. Sorry, but when your name is Bo Guagua, no one will listen to you.

Bo Guagua speaks up for disgraced father Bo Xilai: our story

Bo Guagua defends father Bo Xilai as ‘upright and devoted’: The son of fallen...

China's Bo Xilai suspected of improper sexual relations

Chinese politician Bo Xilai expelled from Communist Party of China, public office, to face justice -

Bo Xilai's son submits witness statement to murder trial of his mother: Bo Guagua says 'facts will speak for the...

Bo Xilai's son says he has "faith that facts will speak for themselves," regarding mother's trial.

Bo Xilai's son confident 'facts will speak for themselves' in mother's murder trial via

Wife of ousted Chinese politician Bo Xilai and family aide charged with murder of British businessman: -EF

CNN: The wife of controversial Chinese politician Bo Xilai has been formally charged with murder, the state-run ...

Xinhua report on the murder charges against Bo Xilai's wife:

Wife of Chinese politician Bo Xilai charged in murder of British businessman

Son of China's Bo Xilai graduates from Harvard | ig u saw guagua in limo, no big deal as 4 graduation?

Bo Guagua, son of ousted Chinese politician Bo Xilai, writes letter to the Harvard Crimson

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