Darwinists must quit watching David Rochas Movies.Darwin’s Bitch is Dead. Lucifer!
Lonesome George who Inspired Charles Darwin Formulate his Fucking Evolution Theory Died at 100 years old of age. According to Darwin George has to die after 200 years but fall Short only 50% off Idioms, Phrases & Assumptions.
QUITO – Lonesome George, the last remaining tortoise of his kind and a conservation icon, died on Sunday of unknown causes, the Galapagos National Park said. He was thought to be about 100 years old. Lonesome George was found in 1972 and had become a symbol of Ecuador’s Galapagos Islands, which attracted some 180,000 visitors last year. “This morning the park ranger in charge of looking after the tortoises found Lonesome George, his body was motionless,” the head of the Galapagos National Park, Edwin Naula, told Reuters. “His life cycle came to an end.” George was believed to be around 100 years old and the last member of a species of giant tortoise from La Pinta, one of the smallest islands in the Galapagos, the Galapagos National Park said. The giant Galapagos tortoises, which can live up to 200 years old, were among the species that helped Charles Darwin formulate his theory of evolution in the 19th century. The Galapagos National Park is considering embalming George’s body so that it can be displayed in the park, Naula said. A spokesperson said the park plans to carry out a necropsy to determine what may have killed the tortoise. Scientists had been trying to get George to mate since 1993, when they introduced two female tortoises of a different subspecies into his pen. They laid eggs twice, but they were infertile. The pen where George lived was visited by thousands of tourists every year, who often had to scramble with each other to take pictures of one of the rarest creatures on Earth. The islands often attract celebrities, including Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt earlier this year. Tortoises were hunted for their meat by sailors and fishermen to the point of extinction, while their habitat has been eaten away by goats introduced from the mainland. Some 20,000 giant tortoises still live on the Galapagos.
Netanyahu to Arab Traitors Knesset Members Tibi & Barakeh: World has changed, Israel has changed and situation ain’t what it was in past everyone should share burden and joint National Service”
Here is Some Mindsteroid Must-Read: by Gil Ronen Arutz Sheva Daily Israel Report
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spoke Thursday evening with Arab MKs Ahmed Tibi and Mohammed Barakeh about the Plesner Committee, in an apparent effort to make it possible to recruit young Arabs to national service. Netanyahu told them that despite the Plesner Committee’s recommendation not to take action against Arab draft dodgers, he still believes in the idea of “enlistment for all.” “The world has changed, the country has changed and the situation Is not what it was in the past,” Netanyahu told the two. “Everyone should share the burden.” Netanyahu said that the Arab MKs should not “build up hopes” after the Committee’s decision, and that the possibility of a conscripting Arabs to do national service “is still being discussed.” The Plesner Committee’s announcement that it would not recommend sanctions against Arabs who do not enlist caused Yisrael Beytenu and the Jewish Home to announce they were pulling out of the Plesner Committee. Netanyahu’s statement to the Arab MKs can be seen as evidence that he essentially agrees with the Jewish Home and Yisrael Beytenu’s disappointment with the Plesner Committee’s laxness regarding Arabs.
Mileikowsky Benjamin Netanyahu Benzion Netanyahu was born Benzion Mileikowsky on March 25, 1910, in Warsaw, Poland. His father, Nathan, a rabbi, moved the family to Palestine in 1920 and changed its name to Netanyahu. Benzion Mileikowsky
If you’re Fucked Unemployable Back Home. Got a Degree and an Idea? Go to China. By 2009, only 311 People had Permanent Residence in Beijing. Foreigners registered in Beijing were not permitted to leave 20 km. Radius from Tiananmen Square, without permission.
If America won’t have you, China just might.
Here is Evan Osnos of the New Yorker letter from Beijing:
America is not the only great power struggling with how to handle the future of foreigners in its midst. As the Supreme Court indicated in its mixed decision Monday on Arizona’s immigration-enforcement law, the question of how we regard those who arrive on our shores has both philosophical and practical components. The philosophical argument in favor of immigration is, of course, what my colleague Steve Coll describes in Comment this week, as “America’s foundational narrative”—the notion that the unique American advantage is our commitment to absorb the best brains and ideas from abroad. But, these days, that conviction runs into versions of a less soaring, if ostensibly practical, assertion, along the lines that “we already have a domestic work force that has the same skills,” as one advocate for reduced immigration put it in the Times yesterday. (That argument, incidentally, is not well-served by a new study that confirms what every globally minded executive will tell you: the future of American innovation depends substantially on our openness to foreigners because immigrants play a role in more than three out of four patents at the nation’s top research universities. In China, immigration poses new questions, and the philosophical and practical pressures are very different. For centuries, it was not an issue: beset by poverty and upheaval, the Chinese were the ones headed abroad, and hardly anyone was showing up looking for shelter. Now that the tables have turned, the legal infrastructure is lacking. As recently as the mid-eighties, foreigners registered in Beijing were not permitted to leave a radius of twenty kilometers from Tiananmen Square, without permission, according to China Daily. Foreigners only gained the legal right to stay freely in Chinese households less than a decade ago. In a nation of 1.3 billion, foreigners were such an afterthought that they were only formally counted for the first time in the census two years ago. The notion of giving foreigners “permanent residence” was so out of step with the Chinese view of Chineseness, that by 2009, only three hundred and eleven people in Beijing had earned the right to permanent residence. It is no longer an abstract issue. Last week, a hundred or so African migrants in the city of Guangzhou staged an angry protest after an African man died following a fight with a local bicycle-taxi driver about a fare. Much about it is unclear—did he die at the hands of a crowd, or in police custody?—but the effect was clear: protesters ended up hurling bricks at police cars and other vehicles, demanding the body of the deceased, while some neighborhood residents shouted, “Guangzhou doesn’t welcome you. Go back home.” There was more to this than a taxi-fare dispute. The Africans in Guangzhou constitute perhaps the single largest foreign enclave in China and thus have been a kind of test-case for China’s handling of foreign aspirants ever since the community popped up a decade or so ago. I wrote about that neighborhood in the magazine in 2009; at the time, the Africans complained that they were subject to intense scrutiny, and were frequently jailed and deported for immigration violations. Recently, China embarked on a “hundred-day crackdown” against those working and staying in the country illegally, and people are now advised to carry a passport in case of random checks. The issue will only grow in coming years, as more and more foreigners seek to settle in China for more than a few months or years. Chinese officials are now reviewing the nation’s first-ever immigration law, which will determine what kinds of workers can stay, for how long, and for what kinds of jobs. (Among the details one hopes do not pass: a plan to collect “biological data,” whatever that means, to keep track of new arrivals.) But the tensions in the Nigerian community, and the “hundred-day crackdown,” should not obscure the fact that, in many ways, China is a promising place to be for a foreigner who arrives in search of education or opportunity. With some exceptions, visas are plentiful, unemployment is low, and it’s arguably easier to be an American working illegally in China than in Europe. China has no Tea Party arguing that these people are taking anything away from Chinese job-seekers, and Chinese policymakers are acutely aware of the value that foreign ideas pose to stimulating innovation. They are unlikely to do anything that closes off that pathway of new ideas. Curiously, China’s late arrival to the question of immigration may be to its advantage: if China can follow the learning curve on immigration as fast as it has on other things, and begin to provide university and employment opportunities to the best minds from around the world, it just may take a page from our history and become a destination for talented young aspirants who once imagined that they would make their lives in the United States.
Yang looks forward to half a day’s maternity leave ANKANG (China Daily Show) – A county official who forced a young woman to abort her seven-month-old child was today forced to finally give a fuck, after the rest of the country found out about it.
Fei Bi, a 48-year-old male official with thinning hair and incipient gout, ordered a team of five unnamed men to hold down Feng Jianmei and forcibly inject her with a poisonous serum, before sloping off home.
Fei’s dinner plans were spoiled, however, after a photograph of the mother, lying unconscious on a hospital bed next to her dead baby, were uploaded to the Internet – sparking widespread fury and an official investigation into the crime.
Yang was first detained by family planning officials two weeks ago and told to pay a 40,000-yuan ‘second child’ fine. Unable to afford the sum, the 23-year-old migrant worker was made to sign consent, while blindfolded, to the late-term abortion.
The news was created with disgust and rage nationwide.
Authorities have since scrambled to show the country that Yang’s case was an illegal aberration and not part of a widespread – and tacitly approved –central policy.
Family planning chief Fei Bi was reportedly surprised when officers arrived at his home and apologetically told him he was losing his gig.
Fei’s explanation – that he was only doing what he’d previously got away with doing on countless other occasions – was dismissed as “truthfully ineligible.” Netizens yesterday denounced the incident as being merely the tip of the iceberg, as far as rural family-planning abuses are concerned.
But others pointed out that Shaanxi officials have answered a nagging philosophical conundrum, by finally put a definitive price on a human life – 40,000 yuan.
Here is Some Conspiracy Theorists Pot to Chew Nontroversies from Daily Mail
Heywood Terminated because the Fuckn’ Old Harrovian Burned Bo’s Bitch Money Hedging WallStreet Scams not Spying for MI6 Here is Some Conspiracy Theorists Pot to Chew Nontroversies from Daily Mail: Was murdered Briton a spy? Old Harrovian ‘passed information on Chinese power couple to MI6′ By Tim Shipman , Nick Mcdermott and Peter Simpson The mystery of the Old Harrovian murdered in China took an intriguing twist last night when MPs demanded to know if he was a spy. They called on Foreign Secretary William Hague to come clean about whether Neil Heywood tipped off MI6 about his secretive activities as an adviser to a disgraced Chinese power broker. The Daily Mail has been told that Mr Heywood passed information to MI6 as an ‘agent of influence’, though officials insist he was not on the Secret Intelligence Service payroll. Suspicions: Police believe Gu Kailai, left, had businessman Neil Heywood, right, poisoned after he threatened to expose her plan to move millions of dollars abroad The Chinese authorities are investigating whether Mr Heywood, 41, was poisoned with cyanide last November after falling out with Bo Xilai, who was ousted as the Communist boss of the city of Chongqing. Officials in China told the Mail Mr Heywood died after helping Mr Bo and his wife Gu Kailai, with whom the Briton is alleged to have had an affair, funnel £1billion of Chinese state assets into foreign bank accounts. 39 arrests in hunt for killer of Old Harrovian businessman – including one of China’s richest men Mrs Gu is suspected of murdering the British businessman after he demanded a larger cut of the cash and threatened to expose the money trail. Mr Heywood also worked with the secretive Mayfair business intelligence firm Hakluyt, which was founded by two retired MI6 officers and also employs a number of former MI6 officers. Last night Richard Ottaway, the Tory chairman of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, wrote to Mr Hague asking him to clarify Mr Heywood’s relationship with the British Consulate in Chongqing and the British Embassy in Beijing. He said: ‘For instance, did he supply the British Consulate or Embassy with information, either on a formal or informal basis?’ Mr Heywood lived a James Bond lifestyle and acted as an adviser to Aston Martin, the favoured car brand of the fictional British secret service agent. Often dressed in a crumpled cream linen suit and bathed in an almost permanent cloud of cigar smoke, he was something of a throwback to a bygone colonial era. The Old Harrovian made the most of his privileged background to promote himself in China as a well-connected fixer, earning a comfortable living. The ‘quiet Englishman’, as Mr Heywood was sometimes known, ran a business consultancy, bringing British and Chinese firms together, and various luxury car franchises. He drove a Jaguar with a Union Jack bumper sticker. Mr Heywood knew the former ‘golden couple’ of the Bos for more than a decade and helped their son Bo Guagua, whom he had taught English, win a place at Harrow before studying at Oxford. Questions over how the Bos could afford a foreign education for their son, who is currently studying at Harvard, have been circulating in China for years. The Mail understands that Mr Heywood was an ‘agent of influence’, a well-placed figure whose work made him of use to the intelligence services, though not a full-time officer or undercover operative. ‘Someone in his position will always be asked what he knows and who he has seen and what gossip he has picked up,’ a well-placed source said. ‘He was in bed with a very big fish. ‘Hakluyt is packed with ex-SIS people and you know what they say: once MI6, always MI6.’ A source close to Mr Hague, who has ministerial responsibility for MI6, said: ‘He was not on our payroll. He was not an employee.’ Questions remain: It is thought that Mr Heywood was killed in one of the mountain-top hotel’s £600-a-night villas, but details of his demise are sketchy The Foreign Office refused to confirm or deny whether Mr Heywood was an MI6 informer. ‘We don’t ever get into saying one way or the other,’ an official said. ‘If you deny it when it’s not true you’d have to confirm it when it was.’ But a senior Whitehall source confirmed: ‘It is not unusual for people like that to pop in for a quiet coffee from time to time.’ Hakluyt issued a statement last week saying: ‘Neil had a long history of advising Western companies on China and we were among those who sought his advice. We are greatly saddened by his death.’ The chairman of the British Chamber of Commerce in Chongqing, Richard Cao, told the Mail it was likely that Mr Heywood helped the corrupt couple smuggle from China at least £1billion, which they had accumulated during two decades of abusing their power and influence. He said: ‘It will be hard to trace the money because it will be hard to prove it is illegal funds. ‘Even it if was gained from state-owned assets, it must have been washed very clean by the Bos and Mr Heywood.’ The Chinese government is now attempting to follow the paper trail and recover the illegal funds, with an unnamed official claiming that greed and money ultimately led to Mr Heywood’s murder. A government source said: ‘It’s highly likely Heywood was involved in transferring Bo’s money out of the country, and we believe this is the impetus behind his killing. ‘This British guy must have done something the Bos did not want to be publicised.’ The British Government is under growing pressure to explain why Mr Hague was informed about the significance of Mr Heywood’s death only in February, three months after he was killed and a month after Chinese authorities told the Foreign Office Mr Heywood’s death was suspicious. David Cameron has also demanded answers from MI6 officers and diplomats about how the Government ended up blindsided by the murder. A report in the Hong Kong media yesterday claimed that Mrs Gu has terminal bone cancer and only has ‘a year or two’ to live. It was alleged that since she became ill, she has undergone a sudden change in character, becoming increasingly flirtatious and ‘promiscuous’. Mr Bo is now under virtual house arrest, while Mrs Gu is being held in police custody. Police investigating the murder have made dozens of arrests, according to reports, including that of billionaire Xu Ming, one of China’s richest men. Mr Heywood’s Chinese wife, Wang Lulu, remains at the family’s exclusive gated villa compound in Beijing with their children aged seven and 11, who hold British passports. It is understood the British Embassy has granted Mrs Heywood a visa which would enable her to come to this country. Marble-clad hotel where Old Harrovian was killed Perched on a hillside on the outskirts of China’s fastest growing city is the secluded Nanshan Lijing Hotel. Also known as the Lucky Holiday Hotel, it was here, in one of its ten private villas, that the body of Neil Heywood was found last November. The Old Harrovian was allegedly lured to the three-star resort by a representative of Bo Xilai and Gu Kailai – one of China’s most powerful political families.
Suspicious: The reception area of the Nanshan Lijing Holiday Hotel in Chongqing, China, where British businessman Neil Heywood was found dead Police believe he was murdered for daring to threaten to expose the couple’s crooked business dealings. The £600-a-night villas, which boast marble floors and chandeliers, and an eccentric mix of Chinese and European furniture, were the favoured location from which Mrs Gu ruthlessly wielded her power. It was here that she struck multi-million pound deals with shady generals and corrupt Chinese officials, and hosted exclusive dinner parties and private lunches. Richard Cao, chairman of the British Chambers of Commerce in China, said: ‘It was at the Nanshan Hotel that a deputy police chief tried to gatecrash a private dinner party Gu was holding. ‘He arrived drunk and got upset because Gu’s bodyguards would not allow him in the restaurant. Despite his rank, she had him sacked.’ In another incident, a group of off-duty police officers eating in the restaurant ignored Mrs Gu’s request to quieten down. All were sacked. please follow these links that influenced this video hereinbelow:
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Here is Some Mindsteroid Must-Read from letters@chronicle.utah.edu. There’s little to fear. As future leaders of the United States, it’s important for students to study historical phenomena. This can educate upcoming leaders on world trends to avoid in the future. One such phenomenon swept small, yet strategically significant states during the Cold War. The term “Finlandization” refers to the Soviet Union holding power over Finland’s foreign policy during the war. Moscow used its military power, coupled with the West’s disinclination, to defend small states like Finland, to dragoon Finns into policies that took Moscow’s interests into account. If the United States is not careful, it risks Finlandizing with respect to China for economic reasons. That is, it risks purporting friendliness toward the Chinese outwardly because it fears China’s power secretly. China runs stabalization process on its currency, which guarantees that the Yuan trades within certain parameters. This process involves China extracting dollars from its trade surplus. Normally, these dollars would be sold in the foreign exchange market, which would drive down the price of the dollar. However, to counteract this, China eats up U.S. Treasuries bonds. When the dollar decreases in value, China buys Treasuries bonds to reinforce it. These economic facts permit China to manipulate its currency free from reproach. They conflate to give China a sort of financial nuclear option against the United States, and force the United States into policy making from China’s back pocket. Congress should enact an excise tax on imported Chinese goods, and should forbid the Chinese government from making further purchases of U.S. Treasuries. These actions would level the playing field in trade practices, crack down on currency manipulation and reduce the risk of Finlandization. Some forecast a trade war with China in the event that Congress sanctions the state. Others wonder how the United States would be able to finance its debt if China is not there to buy Treasury bonds. As for the latter, according to a World Bank report, China hasn’t bought U.S. Treasury bonds at as rapid a pace in recent years, making it unlikely that the United States would suffer if it forbade China from bond purchases. The former fear derives from a more basic fear, namely, that China is becoming the world’s economic superpower. It is true that China’s economy could soon eclipse the U.S. economy in terms of gross domestic product. With 1.29 billion people — four times the population of the United States — China should have a larger economy, if it is remotely efficient. The more relevant figure is the purchasing power parity, which takes into account standard of living and the value of produced goods. Here, the United States, with a PPP of $48,147, is worlds ahead of China, whose PPP is just $8,394. China’s economic growth is overstated. The country still heavily relies on state-owned industries; that is, it props up certain sectors of the economy while punishing others. It is not sufficiently capitalist to support its current rate of expansion. China moved precipitately from an agricultural economy to an industrial economy. The same transition made long-term growth impossible for the Soviets. China’s labor laws are lax, as are its environmental regulations. Both workers and the environment are degraded, which affects growth rates, according to the World Bank. China’s economy is export-based, too, and features low consumer demand; slow economies elsewhere in the world or self-sufficient states pose a threat to China’s growth. Regime type also matters. Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson show in “Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty” that economic growth is only sustainable when coupled with democratic political institutions. This is because incentives to innovate are nonexistent when liberties are restricted. China’s central government channels resources away from the people and toward elites while placing burdens on the backs of the people alone. China looks to follow the trajectory of Soviet Russia. Rather than long-term economic growth and political reform to boot, the Chinese are apt to experience short-term prosperity and eventual decline. We, as future leaders of America, must understand these lessons of history so that when the time comes to address China’s status on the world stage, we can act from an informed position and end up on the right side of history.
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Here is Some Mindsteroid Must-Read: The People’s Bank of China, the country’s central bank, said in a statement published on its official website that the floating band in the inter-bank spot foreign exchange market will be enlarged from 0.5 percent to 1 percent effective April 16. To keep the exchange rate stable, the PBOC has set a daily reference rate for the yuan and it will be allowed to fluctuate only to the daily limit on either side of the reference rate. The trading range was widened to 0.5 percent from 0.3 percent in May 2007. It also raised the spread between dollar selling and buying prices offered by the foreign exchange-designated banks to their customers to 2 percent of the reference rate, from the current level of 1 percent. News of this announcement was widely supported by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as it promoted market transparency and economic stability. From CBS Market Watch: Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, welcomed the move. “This underlines China’s commitment to rebalance its economy toward domestic consumption and allow market forces to play a greater role in determining the level of the exchange rate,” Lagarde said in a statement. The scale of the widening is bigger than the 0.7% the market had expected, according to Ting Lu, a China economist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, in emailed comments. Earlier this week, China Securities Regulatory Commission increased the quotas for foreign institutional investors from $30 billion to $80 billion. This move highlights a strategic economic shift from an export model to a consumption model. From Bloomberg News: China, the world’s second-biggest economy, has pledged this year to free up control of the yuan and liberalize interest rates as the government deepens reforms to revive growth and offset slowing exports and a cooling housing market. China needs to rely more on markets and the private sector as its export- oriented model isn’t sustainable, World Bank President Robert Zoellick said in February. “More action on opening up their markets to outside investment is definitely a positive,” Jeff Papp, a senior analyst in Lisle, Illinois at Oberweis Asset Management Inc., which oversees about $700 million, said in a phone interview. “It’s not a huge amount. They’re taking a small-steps approach to see how markets will react with more participants.”
Here is Some Mindsteroid Must-Read: The People’s Bank of China, the country’s central bank, said in a statement published on its official website that the floating band in the inter-bank spot foreign exchange market will be enlarged from 0.5 percent to 1 percent effective April 16. To keep the exchange rate stable, the PBOC has set a daily reference rate for the yuan and it will be allowed to fluctuate only to the daily limit on either side of the reference rate. The trading range was widened to 0.5 percent from 0.3 percent in May 2007. It also raised the spread between dollar selling and buying prices offered by the foreign exchange-designated banks to their customers to 2 percent of the reference rate, from the current level of 1 percent. News of this announcement was widely supported by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as it promoted market transparency and economic stability. From CBS Market Watch: Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, welcomed the move. “This underlines China’s commitment to rebalance its economy toward domestic consumption and allow market forces to play a greater role in determining the level of the exchange rate,” Lagarde said in a statement. The scale of the widening is bigger than the 0.7% the market had expected, according to Ting Lu, a China economist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, in emailed comments. Earlier this week, China Securities Regulatory Commission increased the quotas for foreign institutional investors from $30 billion to $80 billion. This move highlights a strategic economic shift from an export model to a consumption model. From Bloomberg News: China, the world’s second-biggest economy, has pledged this year to free up control of the yuan and liberalize interest rates as the government deepens reforms to revive growth and offset slowing exports and a cooling housing market. China needs to rely more on markets and the private sector as its export- oriented model isn’t sustainable, World Bank President Robert Zoellick said in February. “More action on opening up their markets to outside investment is definitely a positive,” Jeff Papp, a senior analyst in Lisle, Illinois at Oberweis Asset Management Inc., which oversees about $700 million, said in a phone interview. “It’s not a huge amount. They’re taking a small-steps approach to see how markets will react with more participants.”
That’s some Horsemanure Worth-Loathed, Read this on the Harvard Crimson: Bo Guagua, a student at the Harvard Kennedy School, has captured the attention of international media following the political downfall of his father, a former Communist Party leader, and the arrest of his mother for the alleged murder of her son’s mentor. Bo Guagua’s father, Bo Xilai, was removed from his position as Party secretary of China’s Chongqing municipality in March and then ousted from the Politburo—China’s most influential political body—the following month. The reasons for his rapid downfall are not entirely clear, but include allegations of corruption and overextension of power. At the root of much of the publicity surrounding the younger Bo is his connections with the late Neil Heywood, a British businessman who lived in China until his death last fall. Bo’s mother Gu Kailai, wife of Bo Xilai, was arrested for Heywood’s murder earlier this month. Heywood is thought to have served as a mentor to the younger Bo by helping him gain admission to Harrow—a prestigious English secondary school—and Oxford University. Chinese authorities said that the family’s relationship with Heywood soured following “a conflict over economic interests,” according to a report in The Daily Mail. While he was a student in England, Bo Guagua’s behavior came under scrutiny as reporters examined rumors of his father’s corruption. Many questioned how the family could afford to underwrite the private education and glamorous social life of their son, who was well known for throwing lavish parties and driving a red Ferrari in Beijing. As the controversy heated up in recent weeks, Bo Guagua has removed himself from the public eye. His last clear public communication followed his father’s removal from his position as party leader last month. “My personal desire is to focus on my studies and be left out of the political intrigues,” he wrote in an email to The Times of London. He was believed to be residing in his Cambridge apartment as recently as Tuesday, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. Some reports have speculated that he will seek asylum in the United States after he receives his degree from the Kennedy School next month. Bo Guagua could not be reached for comment. Kennedy School Professor of Practice Emeritus Marvin Kalb said that the recent stir in the media over the family indicates growing political tensions in China. “Clearly Bo [Xilai] was someone who challenged the assumptions of the party and the timetable of the party,” Kalb said. “The people in power looked upon him as someone who was who challenging their authority.” He added, “What you’re looking at is a [potential] change of direction of the Communist Party…. I believe the traditionalists at this point will end up winning the day. The man who represented a fundamental threat to their power and their style has been purged.” —Staff writer Justin C. Worland can be reached at jworland@college.harvard.edu.
