金融时报：周永康不再掌政法委实权

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VOA Chinese, May 14, 2012.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/n ... kang-151378105.html

Note: The report is based on
Jamil Anderlini, Bo Supporter Hands Over Roles in China's Security; Chief of domestic spy regime sidelined; Lobbying sparked move, say insiders. Financial Times, May 14, 2012.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/929411 ... 9-00144feabdc0.html

Quote:

"On paper and in public, Zhou Yongkang * * * retains his title as secretary of the ruling Communist party’s political and legislative affairs committee. He is also part of the nine-member politburo standing committee, which effectively runs China. But according to three senior party members and diplomats briefed on the subject he has handed operational control of the pervasive Chinese security apparatus to Meng Jianzhu, the current minister of public security.

A move "which occurred some weeks ago


(2) 世界媒体看中国：怪异新闻薄熙来. VOA Chinese, May 14, 2012.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/n ... hina-151429175.html

Note:
(a) 失脚 【しっきゃく】 (n): "losing one's standing; being overthrown; falling"
(b) 大物【おおもの】 (n): "important person; big-shot; big game (animal, fish)"
(c)
* 独占 【どくせん】 (n): "monopoly"
* 独占会見 【どくせんかいけん】 (n): "exclusive interview"
(d) 日本 国会新聞社 (in Japanese writing), やまと新聞  Yamato Press
http://www.yamatopress.com/
(やまと新聞は国会内に所属し代議士に直接配布できる新聞社です; 明治19年 [1886] 創刊; 戦前は発行部数第一位でした)
(e) "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."

Carl Sagan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan
(1934-1996; American)

Quote: "Sagan is also widely regarded as a freethinker or skeptic; one of his most famous quotations, in Cosmos, was, 'Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence' (called the 'Sagan Standard' by some). This was based on a nearly identical statement by fellow founder of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, Marcello Truzzi, 'An extraordinary claim requires extraordinary proof.' This idea originated with Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827), a French mathematician and astronomer who said, 'The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness'")


(3) 广东省委新班子集体在线交流 不谈政改. VOA Chinese, May 14, 2012.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/n ... ders-151342225.html