I mainly want to know where he is, China or somewhere else.
(b) "沈大伟表示，习近平高压控制会加速中共崩溃，因为他进一步背离了江泽民时代曾庆红的开明路线。 * * * 引人注目的是，沈大伟认为，是曾庆红而不是总书记江泽民，代表了这条能从某种程度上延缓共产党衰落的路线。"
My reading of David Shambaugh's WSJ essay is whatever China does or does not do, it--more specifically, CCP--will debacle, simply because no political party last more than 75 years. (What about North Korea? Nobody pays attention to it. Yet division of Korea occurred in 1945, four years before PRC was founded.)
(c) Regarding quotation 2. See David Shambaugh, The Coming Chinese Crackup. The endgame of communist rule has begun, argues a longtime China scholar. Xi Jinping’s campaign against dissent and corruption is only bringing the country closer to breaking point. Wall Street Journal, Mar 7, 2015 www.wsj.com/articles/the-coming-chinese-crack-up-1425659198
("His [Xi's] predecessors, Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao, drew very different lessons from the Soviet collapse. From 2000 to 2008, they instituted policies intended to open up the system with carefully limited political reforms")
(d) "3月14日，香港《动向》杂志报道，2月26日，赵洪祝代表中纪委、中组部正式宣布对曾庆红立案审查。赵洪祝特别转达了王岐山对曾的三点忠告：现在是检查、交待的最后时机；不要抱幻想；不要走的太远。该文甚至被一些海外亲北京媒体转载。"
(i) The truth is the Hong Kong report is NOT republished ANYWHERE, despite 動向 magazine welcome it (generally speaking).
(ii) Here is the home page of the magazine http://www.chengmingmag.com/t355/t355-main.html
, whose cover story of the March issue is 曾慶紅立案審查; 多次大鬧中南海.
In the left column of the home age, click 目錄索引, and you will see the title of the article at issue:
程京萊, 中紀委對曾慶紅立案審查; 曾指政治迫害並將劉雲山一軍 拒申報家族資產揚言準備坐牢. 動向, March 2015, at page 6.