标题: Explosive News About Bo/Wang [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 2-8-2012 10:23 标题: Explosive News About Bo/Wang (1) Christopher Bodeen, Mystery Surrounds Fate of Famed China Police Chief. Associated Press, Feb 8, 2012 (3 hours ago) http://news.yahoo.com/mystery-su ... hief-113652876.html
("online reports that he [Wang Lijun] sought asylum at the American consulate in the nearby southwestern city of Chengdu on Tuesday after quarelling with Bo" Xilai; Richard Buangan, a spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, declined to discuss those reports; search results for Wang and Bo were blocked and the comments sections attached to online reports about Wang were disabled)
"Mr Bo’s relationship with Mr Wang collapsed last month under the pressure of an investigation team from the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, according to a Chongqing source who has had recent dealings with both Mr Wang and the commission.
"Speculation was swirling last night that Mr Bo himself was a target of the central investigation
"Eleven of Mr Wang’s close associates from Liaoning province were taken away, including his driver, according to a Chongqing source who has had dealings with him.
"Diplomatic sources confirmed the fact of a tense stand-off involving Mr Wang at the [US Chengdu] consulate, without giving details.
Mote:
(a) The report cites
(i) John Garnaut, Chinese general to fight corruption. SMH, Jan 19, 2012 http://www.smh.com.au/world/chin ... 20120118-1q6n2.html
("His [Liu Yuan's] do-or-die language echoes that of a third ambitious 'princeling' friend, Bo Xilai, whose career has prospered after a big anti-corruption campaign in Chongqing city": the only mention of Mr Bo)
(ii) Editorial: A Dragon of a Year for Change. SMH, Jan 23, 2012 http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/ed ... 20120122-1qc1k.html
(b) Both The Age (based in Melbourne) and SMH are owned by the same media group. Fairfax Media. "The newspaper [The Age] shares many articles with other Fairfax Media metropolitan daily newspapers, such as The Sydney Morning Herald."
The Age http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age
("Liu Yuan, the son of the former Chinese president, Liu Shaoqi, is leading the clean-up. He went as far as conceding that unchecked corruption threatened the very existence of the PLA and the Communist Party.
() A Feb 8, 2012 Guardian report cites
Choi Chi-yuk, Chongqing Reassigns Iron-Fisted Police Boss; 'Triad-buster' and ally of city's party secretary reassigned to new portfolio covering education and environment, setting off speculation about his career. South China Morning Post, Feb 3, 2012 http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/ ... 7733492d9253a0a0a0/
("sources in Beijing said a task force from the party's Central Commission for Discipline Inspection was recently sent to Chongqing")
My comment: To reach the SCMP report, you can not click--or cut and paste--the URL. Rather, you have to search with the title or quotation. Essentially it said little (except the quotation), because little was known at the time.