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Online chatter about China’s political soap opera
The commentary on the Chinese news agency, Xinhua, is clear. Today’s announcement that the disgraced politician Bo Xilai has been expelled from the Chinese Communist Party “has nothing to do with a so-called ‘political struggle’.”