BEIJING: The trial of China’s fallen political star Bo Xilai, expected next month, will be the final step in a downfall carefully stage-managed over the past year by a leadership seeking to reassert the stability he spectacularly upended.
Bo is the country’s highest-profile leader to face trial in decades, indicted for bribery, embezzlement and abuse of power in a scandal that saw his police chief flee to a US consulate and his wife convicted of murdering a British businessman.
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