Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com The Beijing leadership is set to wrap up the case of former Politburo member and Chongqing Party Secretary Bo Xilai before the end of February. Princeling Bo, 63, the son of revered Party elder Bo Yibo, has been accused of crimes including corruption, abuse of power, an “immoral […]
Sol W. Sanders Perhaps more than Westerners, Chinese have a gambling streak. Even during the darkest hours of Maoist oppression and pretended Puritanism, Beijing tolerated gambling on its southern flank in the Portuguese colony of Macau. Now reincorporated into China, in 2012 the world’s largest casino, holding the country’s only legal gambling monopoly, raked […]
Sol W. Sanders Settling in with a drink and interesting talk a few years ago — it would be the last session we had, unhappily — with Ed Seidenstecker, the best of the WWII American Japan scholars, the conversation took a serious turn. As we dissolved in that witlessness that overtakes one in Hawaii, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com East-Asia-Intel.com A former intimate of Gu Kailai, the wife of ousted Chinese strongman Bo Xilai, flew to Beijing only days before prosecutors announced she was being charged with murder. Patrick Henri Devillers, the Frenchman who shared an apartment in Britain with Gu, surrendered to Chinese authorities on July 17. Gu’s indictment for […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com That Bo Xilai’s political life was finished was apparent even before this week’s announcement that his membership in the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee and Politburo has been suspended. What is not as well known is that the charismatic Chongqing Party secretary’s downfall has dealt a body blow […]