Bo Defends His Chongqing Record

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Russell Leigh Moses, Flare from Party’s Red Star Signals a Brewing Storm in Beijing. China Real Time, Nov 1, 2011
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealti ... g-storm-in-beijing/
("Bo Xilai is very much a single-handed sailor in the current political seas. His efforts in Chongqing have not been adopted elsewhere in the country with any force. The recent annual meeting of the Communist Party’s Central Committee focused on protecting and expanding 'socialist culture,' but Bo received no public credit for the campaigns he inaugurated in the same vein")

Note:
(a) The report cites
薄熙来：为政者只想稳稳当当升官 那什么事也干不成. 财经网, Oct 28, 2011.
http://politics.caijing.com.cn/2011-10-28/111183786.html

(b) common prosperity  共同富裕
building a moderately prosperous society  建设小康社会
(c) The phrases "clear sailing" and "smooth sailing" mean the same.



------------------------Separately
(1) 中国河南破获重大制售假药案. BBC CHinese, Nov 1, 2011/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/si ... na_fake_drugs.shtml

(2) Petula Dvorak, What’s Scarier: The Slaying, or the Bystanders Who Heard and Did Nothing?  Washington Post, Oct 31, 2011
(column)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lo ... QA9y2tZM_story.html

Note:
(a) Summary: Trial testimony in a state court of Montgomery County, Maryland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery_County,_Maryland
(just north of Washington, DC)
showed Apple store employees heard but did nothing about the slaying of Jayna Murray in the next store Lululemon, in the evening of Mar 11, 2011.
(b) Dan Morse, Judge in Lululemon Slaying Rules Against Admissibility of Prosecutors’ Account. Washington Post, Oct 31, 2011
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lo ... QAaA6YaM_story.html
(A prosecutor theorizes why Brittany Norwood murdered co-worker Jayna Murray)