SINOGRAPH Wen versus Bo gets more explosive

SINOGRAPH Wen versus Bo gets more explosive 

Western media revelations about  the personal wealth of China's leaders were likely primed by the neo-Maoist camp of Bo Xilai, as the disgraced Chongqing communist party chief fights to avoid the death penalty. Their timing, and the possibility that corruption allegations of the kind levied against Prime Minister Wen Jiabao could target other leaders, lend an increasingly explosive air to next month's party congress.
- Francesco Sisci   Nov 1, 2012

BEIJING - It is certainly an important story, and because of that, there is more than one way to look at it. The long New York Times feature about the businesses of the family of China's Prime Minister Wen Jiabao exploded like a bombshell in Beijing, just as the government was busy preparing for a historical Chinese Communist Party (CCP) congress and the trial of former Chongqing Party Chief, Bo Xilai, who was toppled in the greatest political scandal since the fall of Lin Biao in 1971.

It is not clear whether the story and its timing was just a coincidence, more or less unfortunate, or if it was instead an artfully designed plan by any of the parties involved in the scandal, in the congress or in US-China bilateral relations. Even so, the story played on all these levels. http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/NK01Ad01.html