Gravity of new Gu Kailai criminal accusations clarified

Experts have pointed out that in China's legal system, cases generally don't go to trial unless the likelihood of securing a conviction is high. 

Accusations made through Xinhua this past Friday which link Gu Kailai to several alleged crimes involving her husband, Bo Xilai, led prominent Chinese legal scholar He Weifang to speculate that punishment in a new conviction for economic crimes could raise Gu's current suspended death sentence for murder to an order for execution.

Joshua Rosenzweig, another scholar of Chinese law, shared his view over the weekend of how serious Gu's situation could become if she is convicted for these new alleged crimes:

Morning Clicks

China Car Times
-- Industry News Toyota Chairman Left Waiting On Run Way, Snubbed by Beijing. Japanese Auto Companies Slowing Down Cho, in charge of the Japan-China Economic Association, was expecting to meet with China’s leadership circles to discuss business and political ties with Japan in the aftermath of anti-Japan riots and also a rising trend of Chinese companies refusing to work with Japanese suppliers.

Danwei
-- Everything under heaven is in chaos: China’s digital publishing market The digital publishing market in China suffers from endemic hardware and software copyright infringement claims and lawsuits.

Global Voices Online
-- The Slap that Changed China's History Wang Lijun's fear is exactly our fear. If the party still refuse to carry out the political reform and the democracy constitution, it is hard to say whether the Chongqing scandal will repeat. Wake up!

Gordon G. Chang
-- The Coming Collapse Of Consumption In China The only real surprise is that almost no one saw this coming.

Mashable
-- China’s Internet Is Getting Faster [INFOGRAPHIC] Despite its current online sluggishness, China may be catching up. The country enjoyed a 32% increase in its broadband speed during the six months leading up to May 2012.

Seeking Alpha
-- Bailing Out Of Brazil 2. The country is a large exporter of commodities (iron, soybeans) to China. It is very dependent on these flows to China and the Middle Kingdom is slowing.

The Atlantic
-- China's Great Slowdown Is Really Here—and It's Worse Than You Think For years, global economists have forecast a slowdown in China's breakneck growth. Now that the deceleration is actually here, rich-world investors, companies and government officials, reliant on the Chinese juggernaut for their financial well-being, seem impatient for the revelry to resume...

The Daily Yomiuri
-- China leaves dialogue channels open This was the first time a Politburo Standing Committee member has met with a Japanese business or political delegation since Japan nationalized some of the Senkaku Islands.

The Sydney Morning Herald
-- Tapping China's vast market for services A report released this month by Asialink estimated a small increase in non-mining resources would add $60 billion to $115 billion to the economy in the next decade. But so far, the services industries accounted for just 11 per cent of exports to Asia in 2011.

Media Roundup

China Daily
-- Facing war history 
-- Premier forecasts 'brighter future' 
-- China and France to further improve ties 
-- Zoomlion speeds up overseas expansion 
-- 'Golden period' for Chinese investment 
-- HK conference hears of African opportunity 
-- China-Japan relations stalled by islands dispute 
-- An end to the era of double-digit growth

Global Times
-- FM: Japan stole Diaoyu Islands 
-- Japan loses, others gain 
-- Fear no lightning

People's Daily
-- Click your mouse to safeguard Diaoyu Dao 
-- Noda's thief logic and lies 
-- Weekly review of military photos

Xinhua
-- People's Daily rebukes arms race allegation against China 
-- Slowing economy weighs on China's coal sector 
-- China must advance reform, stick to opening-up, says premier 
-- China improves striking potency against island targets 
-- China's political advisory body to meet after opening of CPC congress 
-- China deeply concerned about worsening situation in Syria 
-- China hails Sudan-South Sudan deals 
-- Commentary: CPC leads China to prosperity 
-- Xinhua Insight: Twists and turns for Chinese SOEs abroad 
-- China's economic slowdown, a sign of soft-landing: U.S. experts 
-- CPC think tank eschews "China model" for "China road" 
-- China at critical time as CPC congress approaches 
-- People's Daily rebukes arms race allegation against China 
-- China must advance reform, stick to opening-up, says premier 
-- Chinese may invest in fairytale theme park
-- China sovereign fund sees 3.9% investment return