Little News About Bo

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(1) Chris Buckley, Insight: China's Bo Exits Stage Left in Succession Drama‎. Reuters, Mar 23, 2012.
http://news.yahoo.com/insight-bo ... rama-092901586.html

Quote:

(a) "He Guoqiang, the Party's top man for keeping discipline and fighting corruption

(b) "The central leader who played a key role in marshalling accusations against Bo and Wang was He Guoqiang, said the ex-official and several other sources.

"From 1999 to 2002, He was party chief of Chongqing, watching as his acolytes in government there were sidelined under Bo's campaigns. As head of the party's Central Discipline Inspection Commission, he backed corruption investigations that could damage Bo, said the sources. By last year, He had seen enough, and began driving the initial wedge between Wang and Bo.

"'He Guoqiang supported investigating Wang Lijun to go after Bo Xilai," said a Chongqing official.

"He's gambit, according to this account, worked to perfection.

My comment:
(a) A sentence ("Two sources said word had spread in government circles that Bo and Wang were suspected of bugging rivals and even central leaders"), repeated twice in the report, suggests the recrimination, as well as counter-recrimination, is far from over.
(b) The “exit” in Reuters title is a transitive verb, whose object is the “stage.”

(2) Barbara Demick, China coup rumors may be wild, but tension is real. Los Angeles Times, Mar 23, 2012.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nati ... oup-rumors-20120323,0,6191555.story

Quote:

"State media reported this week that 3,300 party cadres from the security apparatus would be sent to Beijing for ideological retraining. The order was unusual enough, but even more so was the fact that the report omitted mention of internal security czar Zhou Yongkang, who heads the Political and Legislative Affairs Committee that is recalling the cadres.

"A level of edginess was apparent this week in the unusually large security presence in central Beijing, complete with armed SWAT teams in some subway stations.

My comment:
(a) There is no need to read the rest.
(b) If you do:
Mingjing News  明鏡新聞網
http://www.mingjingnews.com/