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1. Comment - Insight & Opinion

   For China's leaders, the Bo Xilai problem has not gone away

   Posted Oct 01st 2013, 12:00am by Jerome Cohen

   ... Jerome Cohen Jerome A. Cohen mulls the dilemma for China's leaders on Bo Xilai's appeal - while they are loath to allow an appellate process as 'open' as his trial, they must appear to be doing so The Bo headache Will Bo Xilai's appeal against his recent criminal conviction and life sentence make another contribution to the legal education of the Chinese ...

   http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1321411/chinas-leaders-bo-xilai-problem-has-not-gone-away
2. Comment - Insight & Opinion

   After Bo Xilai, corruption as usual

   Posted Sep 29th 2013, 12:00am by Zhiwu Chen

   ... to ensure abuse of power is less lucrative and its costs are much higher After Bo, it'll be graft as usual One cannot open a Chinese newspaper these days without seeing a story about corrupt ...

   http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1319245/after-bo-xilai-corruption-usual
3. Comment - Insight & Opinion

   In China, justice serves the cause of party politics

   Posted Sep 25th 2013, 12:00am by STEVE TSANG

   ... Steve Tsang Steve Tsang says the rules of the game held firm in Bo Xilai's life sentence and treatment of his son In elite Chinese politics, justice serves only to uphold party's code of conduct The sentencing of Bo Xilai to life imprisonment should come as no surprise. It confirms the Communist Party under Xi Jinping remains a consultative Leninist system characterised ...

   http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1317060/china-justice-serves-cause-party-politics
4. Comment - Insight & Opinion - LEADER

   After Bo Xilai, a fork in the road for China

   Posted Sep 23rd 2013, 12:00am by SCMP Editorial

   ... SCMP Editorial After Bo Xilai, a fork in the road The sentencing of Bo Xilai brings to a close China's biggest case since the televised trial of the Gang of Four more than 30 years ago. Five days of sensational allegations and defiant defence from the disgraced politician transfixed the nation. Though not televised, Bo's public trial was remarkably open, even ...

   http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1315509/after-bo-xilai-fork-road-china
5. Comment - Insight & Opinion

   After Bo, China's political dysfunction just as opaque

   Posted Sep 24th 2013, 12:00am by Kerry Brown

   ... Kerry Brown Kerry Brown says by presenting the Bo Xilai saga as a sorry tale of one family's crime, China's political elders prevented light being shone onthe opaque dealings of the Communist elite Murky relations Bo Xilai has been tried, found guilty and sentenced to life in prison. That, in the normal order of things, should be the end of the matter. Barring profound change ...

   http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1316103/after-bo-chinas-political-dysfunction-just-opaque
6. News - China - CHINA BRIEFING

   Corruption trials expose roles of the "white gloves" who manage the ill-gotten gains

   Posted Sep 09th 2013, 12:00am by Wang Xiangwei

   ... themselves even more fabulously by leveraging ties to powerful politicians and gaining inside information. In the five-day trial of Bo last month, probably the mainland's most closely watched ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1306529/corruption-trials-expose-roles-white-gloves-who-manage-ill-gotten-gains
7. Comment - Insight & Opinion

   How they see it

   Posted Sep 01st 2013, 12:00am

   ... to jail, but he retains some chance of political rehabilitation should things change … his botched - but riveting - trial may be over, but the Bo Xilai show will go on. Taipei ...

   http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1300946/how-they-see-it
8. Comment - Insight & Opinion

   Why Bo Xilai won't go quietly

   Posted Aug 30th 2013, 12:00am by Minxin Pei

   ... Minxin Pei Minxin Pei says the relative openness of Bo Xilai's trial could have been the work of allies wishing to aid his fight for a political comeback. Indeed, such hopes may have inspired his feisty performance Down - and out? As show trials go, the drama featuring Bo Xilai , the once-swaggering, media-savvy former Communist Party chief of Chongqing , veered anomalously ...

   http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1300394/why-bo-xilai-wont-go-quietly
9. Comment - Insight & Opinion

   The Bo Xilai playbook

   Posted Aug 28th 2013, 12:00am by RICHARD HARRIS

   ... Richard Harris Richard Harris says Bo Xilai's performance in court was that of a consummate politician who understood attack was his best defence, and gave his all to discredit testimony against him The Bo offensive The Bo Xilai trial saw the most effective public defence by a politician of his actions since US president Bill Clinton faced a grand jury over the Monica ...

   http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1299849/bo-xilai-playbook
10. News - China - CHINA BRIEFING

    Myriad reasons behind transparency of Bo Xilai's trial

    Posted Aug 26th 2013, 12:00am by Wang Xiangwei

    ... the defendant admitting to the charges, and later a judge reading out a predetermined verdict, if the previous trials of high-ranking Communist Party officials can be any guide. But Bo's trial, ...

    http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1299421/myriad-reasons-behind-transparency-bo-xilais-trial

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