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Analysts: As Bo's Crimes Are Exposed, Will Xi Put Bo to Death?

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Bo Xilai, the former Chongqing party secretary whose fall
caused a political earthquake inside the Chinese Communist
Party (CCP), will be brought to trial at the Intermediate
People's Court in Jinan, Shandong's provincial capital.
Recently, overseas pro-CCP media revealed multiple
shocking facts about Bo's crimes.
This overturns the previous decision that Bo will only face
three 'minor' criminal charges instead of six, including
taking 25 million yuan ($4.1 million) in bribes.

Commentators say that even after CCP leaders
decided to give Bo a lenient sentence, Jiang Zemin's faction
has remained restless and has kept causing troubles.

Consequently, Xi Jinping was finally forced to erect
his authority using Bo's case.

Recently, overseas pro-CCP media continuously reported
Bo Xilai's core crime of a coup attempt, which the party
had avoided mentioning before.
Relevant articles quickly spread across the internet.

In addition, the most recent reports reveal that Bo owned
two private properties in Beijing opposite to Taoranting Park's
East and North entrance.
Each of them is worth 300 million yuan ($49.2 million).

On Aug 2, Hong Kong based newspaper Apple Daily quoted
sources saying Bo and his followers had transferred billions
of dollars abroad as part of the immense wealth
they collected with their political power.
It was also reported that Bo used his third private property,
Kailai Hotel, as a place to secretly imprison his opponents.

Lin Zixu, political commentator: Why were such reports
published before Bo's trial?
On one hand, it can be said it's because some CCP leaders
want to see Bo get the death sentence.
On the other hand, this also shows that they can't do much
to change the situation.
If Bo's house worth 300 million yuan can only be reported
first by oversea media instead of [China's] domestic ones,
we can get an idea about how Bo Xilai will be judged.

Hua Po, Beijing political affairs observer: I think Xi Jinping
wants to establish his authority, possibly with Bo Xilai's life.
A death sentence for Bo will serve to scare other
local officials. The key is how tough Xi's measures will be.

Those on the outside have always thought that Bo Xilai had
been expected by Jiang Zemin's faction to be their next leader.
Jiang's followers are the ones who want Bo to survive most,
as they need Bo to inherit their history of murdering people.
After Bo's public trial was announced, Jiang's faction began to
restlessly act to spare Bo the death sentence.

Analysts say that the CCP is still trying to maintain
an image of legitimate rule.
Therefore they had been afraid to announce Bo's most
astonishing crimes of the large scale murdering of Falun Gong
practitioners, the live harvesting of their organs and the
selling of their corpses for benefits.
Bo had done all these to win Jiang Zemin's favor.

Lin Zixu: We can say that Bo Xilai is a most typical 'product'
of the CCP's regime.
Although the current party leaders seem to hold great
power in hand, they can't do much with this power
if they stay within the CCP's framework.
The real 'big tiger' to deal with is exactly the CCP's
regime itself, and Bo Xilai is its 'tiger cub'.
How can it be possible if someone wants to kill
a tiger cub under the protection of the parent tiger?

As the new chairman of China's Central Military Commission,
Xi Jinping promoted six officials to generals on Aug 1st.
Commentators say Xi's move was to prevent any
political coup and solidify his alliances.

In addition, Zhou Yongkang, the former head of the CCP's
Central Political and Legislative Affairs Committee,
has become the target of the current leaders.

Following the fall of Zhou's secretary, Guo Yongxiang,
it was reported on Aug 3rd that, Wu Bing,
another of Zhou's trusted followers,
was arrested upon attempting to escape Beijing.
Wu had embezzled tens of billions of state-owned
properties for Zhou's family.

Gu Junshan, the former deputy commander of
the PLA's General Logistics Department,
was part of the corruption chain of Jiang Zemin,
Zeng Qinghong and Zhou Yongkang in the army.
Gu was removed from his post in 2012.

On Aug 2nd, the PLA for the first time
made official comments on Gu's corruption case.
This was followed by a large number of reports
from the party's media.
At the same time, Gu's younger brother Gu Xianjun is now
also being pursued by the police through its internal network.

Outsiders have read the attacks against Gu Junshan and
Zhou Yongkang as Xi Jinping's strong response to the defiance
showed by Jiang's faction in the Bo Xilai's case.



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The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan from July 7, 1937, to September 2, 1945. It began with the Marco Polo Bridge Incident in 1937 in which a dispute between Japanese and Chinese troops escalated into a battle.
China fought Japan with aid from the Soviet Union and the United States. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the war merged with other conflicts of World War II as a major sector known as the China Burma India Theater. Some scholars consider the start of the full-scale Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937 to have been the beginning of World War II. The Second Sino-Japanese War was the largest Asian war in the 20th century. It accounted for the majority of civilian and military casualties in the Pacific War, with between 10 and 25 million Chinese civilians and over 4 million Chinese and Japanese military personnel dying from war-related violence, famine, and other causes.
The war was the result of a decades-long Japanese imperialist policy to expand its influence politically and militarily in order to secure access to raw material reserves, food, and labor. The period after World War I brought about increasing stress on the Japanese polity. Leftists sought universal suffrage and greater rights for workers. Increasing textile production from Chinese mills was adversely affecting Japanese production. The Great Depression brought about a large slowdown in exports. All of this contributed to militant nationalism, culminating in the rise to power of a militarist fascist faction. This faction was led at its height by the Hideki Tojo cabinet of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association under edict from Emperor Hirohito. In 1931, the Mukden Incident helped spark the Japanese invasion of Manchuria. The Chinese were defeated and Japan created a new puppet state, Manchukuo; many historians cite 1931 as the beginning of the war. The view has been adopted by the PRC government. From 1931 to 1937, China and Japan continued to skirmish in small, localized engagements, so-called incidents.
Initially the Japanese scored major victories, capturing both Shanghai and the Chinese capital of Nanking in 1937. After failing to stop the Japanese in the Battle of Wuhan, the Chinese central government was relocated to Chongqing (Chungking) in the Chinese interior. By 1939, after Chinese victories in Changsha and Guangxi, and with Japan's lines of communications stretched deep into the Chinese interior, the war reached a stalemate. The Japanese were also unable to defeat the Chinese communist forces in Shaanxi, which waged a campaign of sabotage and guerrilla warfare against the invaders. While Japan ruled the large cities, they lacked sufficient manpower to control China's vast countryside. During this time, Chinese communist forces launched a counter offensive in Central China while Chinese nationalist forces launched a large scale winter offensive.
On December 7, 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, and the following day the United States declared war on Japan. The United States began to aid China by airlifting material over the Himalayas after the Allied defeat in Burma that closed the Burma Road. In 1944 Japan launched the invasion, Operation Ichi-Go, that conquered Henan and Changsha. However, this failed to bring about the surrender of Chinese forces. In 1945, the Chinese Expeditionary Force resumed its advance in Burma and completed the Ledo Road linking India to China. At the same time, China launched large counteroffensives in South China and retook West Hunan and Guangxi.
Despite continuing to occupy part of China's territory, Japan eventually surrendered on September 2, 1945, to Allied forces following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Soviet invasion of Japanese-held Manchuria. The remaining Japanese occupation forces (excluding Manchuria) for ...