As Neil Heywood lay dying from cyanide poisoning, he could not have known the plot to kill him would shake the Chinese Communist Party to its core and dramatically alter the rule of Xi Jinping.
The scandal that sealed Bo Xilai's fateAfter Dailin, he served as governor and then minister of commerce, before finally landing a coveted position in the Politburo — the decision-making body of the CCP.
"He was really running against the grain of how you're meant to do things in China, which is to be part of a collective … to rise through the ranks with other people and to not openly compete or campaign for power." With no hope of escaping China, Wang then asked American officials to help him send a message to the party leadership.
Bo Xilai , seemingly unaware his whole life was falling apart, attended the National People's Congress in March 2012.But by then, there was blood in the water and Bo's political enemies were circling."The current [Chongqing] party committee and government of Chongqing must seriously reflect on the Wang Lijun incident and learn lessons," he said.
After scattering various drugs around the room, Gu and Zhang left the hotel at 11:38pm. By morning, Heywood was dead.Wang Lijun, who had been looped in on Gu's plan the day before, instructed his officers to take away blood samples and other pieces of evidence. "The few days last November, when I learned my son's life was [in peril], my mind indeed collapsed," she told the court, according to Xinhua.One consistent thread in all the alternate versions of events is that Gu had become unstable in the lead-up to Heywood's death.
Motive aside, Gu accepted full responsibility for the murder plots and contested none of the facts written in the indictment. "The wire-tapping was seen as a direct challenge to central authorities. It revealed to them just how far Bo … was prepared to go in his efforts to grasp greater power in China,"By October 2012, Bo had been expelled from the Communist Party and the parliament, paving the way for his prosecution.
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