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Wall of silence around fate of China’s Bo
By Jamil Anderlini in Beijing
©Getty
In a tiny ancient alleyway behind one of Beijing’s busiest shopping streets
the mansion of purged Chinese leader Bo Xilai is guarded by at least three
security cameras and a high stone wall topped by a palisade of thin tree
branches.
A young officer in full military, or paramilitary, uniform answers the
doorbell and peers through a crack in the traditional Chinese double doors.
“They’re not available to accept interviews, you can’t do interviews here
, go away,” says the officer when asked if Mr Bo, his wife, Gu Kailai, or
son, Bo Guagua, will speak to the Financial Times.
The presence of a fully uniformed officer inside the Bo family home could
mean the family has been arrested or he could be part of the normal guard
detail provided to high-ranking members of the Communist party.
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Since a one-line statement was published in state media on Thursday, March
15, announcing Mr Bo’s dismissal as party chief of one of China’s biggest
cities, Chongqing, there has been no official word on his fate.
The information vacuum has allowed a cacophony of rumours and innuendo to
fill the gap and Beijing is awash with improbable reports of attempted coups
and assassinations.
Meanwhile, the party and the bureaucracy appear to be paralysed and
incapable of providing a coherent message.
Like Pekingologists from an earlier generation, foreign reporters and
analysts have been reduced to scouring the pages of the People’s Daily, the
official mouthpiece of the Communist party, to see which leaders have made
public appearances and are hence in favour.
But even the Global Times, a staunchly nationalistic newspaper published by
the People’s Daily itself, appeared to be at a loss this week.
“The whole of China is waiting for the party to speak,” it said in an
editorial on Thursday on the purge of Mr Bo that did not mention him by name
. “We hope they can come to a conclusion faster. The faster we hear an
authoritative voice, the clearer society can be and the public can feel more
secure.”
Analysts say it is still possible that Mr Bo will cut a deal and be given
some meaningless sinecure to live out his days in obscurity, but the longer
the party delays revealing his fate the worse things look for him and the
more the public is left to speculate about divisions in the leadership.
Bo Guagua is reported by some of his friends to be in the US, where he is
enrolled as a graduate student at Harvard University, but credible sources
say he and his wife have already been detained and are likely to face
unspecified charges.
Neighbours and local business-owners say they have not noticed anything
particularly unusual at the Bo house since last Thursday, when the elder Mr
Bo was ousted from his role as Chongqing party chief, but say they are not
sure whether Mr Bo and his family are inside.
In Chongqing he did some great things, especially smashing the mafia
The dilapidated alleyway is a typical mix of flophouses, renovated mansions,
tiny noodle restaurants and street-side barber shops, and the ordinary
bustling life of the ancient Beijing “hutong” alley carries on oblivious
to the fate of its high-profile resident.
Although the mansion is not visible from the alley, the giant tree that
protrudes from the inner courtyard must be at least 100 years old and towers
over a smaller, western-style mansion on one side and a ramshackle, mostly
derelict traditional Chinese courtyard on the other.
In a tiny unheated room in the courtyard, a poor migrant worker who has
lived there for years reacts with shock to the suggestion that Mr Bo and his
wife have been detained following his dismissal.
“You can tell from his appearance that he is a good person, a good clean
official and not corrupt in the slightest,” says the worker, who did not
want to be named.
When asked how he felt about Mr Bo living in such a grand mansion in the
midst of relative squalor, he says it is Mr Bo’s right as a top Communist
official and as the son of Bo Yibo, a revolutionary general who had fought
alongside Mao Zedong.
“Out there in Chongqing he did some great things, especially smashing the
mafia,” the man says.
This is the challenge the party faces – after years of propaganda
portraying Mr Bo as a crime-fighting, no-nonsense “red-blooded” heir to
the revolutionary tradition, it now has to explain why he has been removed
from his position and possibly detained.
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Since imperial times, and especially since the founding of the Communist
dynasty, Chinese politics has been punctuated with examples of senior
Mandarins lionised one day and vilified the next, but the country has not
seen an official as important as Mr Bo purged for at least two decades.
To the huge and growing group of well-educated, worldly and sophisticated
urban Chinese, the news of an old-style political purge is something of an
embarrassment in what is now the world’s second-largest economy and a
supposed superpower-in-training.
Some liken the crisis of legitimacy and the hardening of the party’s
response to criticism and dissent over the past year to the final days of
the Manchu Qing empire in 1911.
The revival of Mao-era propaganda and the news this week that China’s
Justice Ministry will require all lawyers in the country to swear a loyalty
oath to the Communist party provoked observations that the regime is
resorting to bankrupt ideological symbols in a vain attempt to shore up
public support.
“The emperor is doing everything he can to convince the masses that he’s
wearing clothes,” says one successful businessman, who was a close observer
of the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy demonstrations and, like many of his
contemporaries, believes what China really needs is to launch political
reforms immediately. “He’s doing everything except actually putting on
some clothes.” | d*****y
发帖数: 1365 | 2 Bo Guagua is reported by some of his friends to be in the US, where he is
enrolled as a graduate student at Harvard University, but credible sources
say he and his wife have already been detained and are likely to face
unspecified charges.
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: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/da1a7d48-74c0-11e1-ab8b-00144feab49a.html#ixzz1q3TAHxM9
: Wall of silence around fate of China’s Bo
: By Jamil Anderlini in Beijing
: ©Getty
: In a tiny ancient alleyway behind one of Beijing’s busiest shopping streets
: the mansion of purged Chinese leader Bo Xilai is guarded by at least three
: security cameras and a high stone wall topped by a palisade of thin tree
: branches.
: A young officer in full military, or paramilitary, uniform answers the
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【在 d*****y 的大作中提到】
: Bo Guagua is reported by some of his friends to be in the US, where he is
: enrolled as a graduate student at Harvard University, but credible sources
: say he and his wife have already been detained and are likely to face
: unspecified charges.
: 瓜瓜结婚了?
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