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Mar
[T]he 2002 shift from party boss Jiang Zemin and his premier, Zhu Rongji, to Hu and Wen…was not easy—Jiang tried to hang on and stock the Politburo with his men, which took several years for Hu to reverse…Bo’s case shows that this transition will be at least as complicated as the one a decade ago…
CC contributor Ian Johnson on Bo Xilai’s downward trajectory and what is says about the looming leadership transition; from “China’s Falling Star,” which appeared in the New York Review of Books blog
