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...“The language [of the directive] is quite similar to the directives on ‘very important political event’ reports such as the trial of Bo Xilai,” he added, referring to the disgraced former politician jailed...
...Neil Heywood, the British businessman poisoned by the wife of Chinese politician Bo Xilai in 2012, had advised the firm....
...(Remember the purge of more dynamic figures that began with the takedown of Chongqing major and former commerce secretary Bo Xilai?) But of course, the equation isn’t only about China....
...The Chengdu consulate also briefly harboured Wang Lijun, the Chongqing police chief who sought asylum there in early 2012 when he betrayed the city’s powerful party boss Bo Xilai, a rising political star...
...So when the Jardines boss would say “My friend Bo Xilai this” and “My friend Bo Xilai that” in meetings with officials, an icy silence would follow....
...Many Maoist websites are selectively blocked by China’s censors and the movement’s one-time hero, former Chongqing party chief Bo Xilai , is serving a life sentence for corruption....
...Twelve years ago, China’s then-commerce minister, Bo Xilai, met in Shanghai with Peter Mandelson, then EU trade commissioner, to seal a deal that temporarily curbed a “surge” of Chinese textile exports to...
...Bo Xilai, who became party secretary in Chongqing in 2007 and was once considered a rival challenger to Mr Xi in the race to lead the Communist party, was felled by a lurid corruption scandal in 2012....
...Mr Wang weathered an attack by Bo Xilai, his successor in Chongqing, who ran a dark horse campaign for the elite Politburo Standing Committee by noisily cracking down on the mafia and gangs that he claimed...
...One of them is Yang Rong, once China’s biggest private car entrepreneur, who fled the country after crossing now-disgraced politician Bo Xilai....
...The fourth contender, Bo Xilai, was arrested in 2012 for alleged corruption and sentenced to life in prison a year later....
...Adding to the sense that China’s president had an ambitious blueprint, two of his erstwhile rivals — Bo Xilai and Zhou Yongkang — were jailed for life in 2013 and 2015 respectively for corruption....
...In 2012 Bo Xilai, then the city’s party secretary and a sitting politburo member, was accused of corruption, clearing the way for Mr Xi and Mr Wang to ascend to the Politburo Standing Committee....
...“This is the equivalent of President Xi [Jinping’s] Bo Xilai moment in China,” he says, referring to the disgraced Chinese politician....
...Retired members of the CMC, they had both been close to Mr Xi’s former rival Bo Xilai, the one-time Communist party boss of the city of Chongqing, who was imprisoned along with his wife in 2013 following...
...Over recent years live transcripts were provided during only two high-profile corruption cases, one involving Bo Xilai, former head of China’s largest city, Chongqing, and a second concerning Liu Tienan,...
...But in reality, 2012 was the exception not the rule, as it featured two potentially very destabilising events for Communist Party rule: • The arrest and subsequent trial of Bo Xilai for corruption....
...Both sides are honing a strategy first practised during the last Communist party leadership transition five years ago, when the downfall of populist rising star Bo Xilai made clear how media leaks can be...
...Several of the princelings, as the children of Communist party leaders are known, connected to Mr Jiang have been targeted, most notably the charismatic Bo Xilai, who was jailed for life in 2013 for abuses...
...In the run-up to the Beijing Olympics in 2008, Lu was one of several Olympic torchbearers (alongside now-disgraced and imprisoned Chongqing leader Bo Xilai)....
...Bo Xilai, a rising political star felled by a murder scandal in 2012, was the province’s governor from 2001 to 2004....
...A crackdown on gangs in the port city of Chongqing at the end of the last decade by now-disgraced politician Bo Xilai and his regional police chief Wang Lijun captured the public imagination with its helicopter...
...Wanda’s ascendancy has been helped by Mr Wang’s friendly ties to Chinese leaders including now-disgraced politician Bo Xilai and the family of current president, Xi Jinping....
...He has profited by remaining close to local authorities since building his business in Dalian when Bo Xilai, the disgraced former politburo member, was the city’s mayor....
...Analysts say privately that members of the former city leadership were too closely tied to ousted chief of security Zhou Yongkang and the fallen party secretary of nearby Chongqing, Bo Xilai, both of whom...
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