外媒：'红二代'促习近平向左转引担忧

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BBC Chinese, Feb 27, 2013.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/si ... d_princelings.shtml

, which is based on

John Garnaut, Concern Mao's most faithful are pulling leader Xi to hard left.
http://www.theage.com.au/world/c ... 20130226-2f44y.html

My comment:
(a) The journalist is "China correspondent for Fairfax Media."
(i) Fairfax Media
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairfax_Media
(one of Australia's largest diversified media companies; John Fairfax purchased The Sydney Morning Herald in 1841; Fairfax publishes the second most circulated daily papers in both Melbourne and Sydney, The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald respectively; Headquarters  Sydney)
(ii) The English surname Fairfax is "nickname for someone with beautiful long hair, from Middle English fair feax ‘beautiful tresses’. This was a common descriptive phrase in Middle English."
Dictionary of American Family Names, by Oxford Univ Press.

(b) China Development Bank chairman CHEN Yuan  陈 元
(c) The convener of the close-knit study group was Hu Shiying, son of Hu Qiaomu, whose work as Chairman Mao's premier writer was held in such esteem that Deng Xiaoping dubbed him ''the Party's First Pen''

胡石英/ 胡乔木 (中共第一支笔; 中共两支笔: 胡乔木 and 周扬)
(d) BO Xicheng 薄熙成 is the third son--Xilai being the second son--of BO Yibo.

(e) The report cites no concrete evidence whatsoever, just speculations.