“If the thoughts of members and cadres of the party are not pure, their
ideas cannot be firm, and their political positions can easily change.”
Xi did not mention Bo by name in his speech, delivered to cadets at the
Central Party School – a training ground for future leaders – on March 1.
But David Goodman, an expert on Chinese politics, said it sent a message that
party leaders did not want the kind of open politics that the charismatic
and populist Bo was seen as practising.
“What happened under Mao (Zedong) was that individual whim rather party
organisation came to rule,” said Goodman, professor of Chinese politics
at the University of Sydney.
“The Cultural Revolution smacks to many people of a lawlessness and the
whims of a single ruler. How does that relate to Bo? He laid himself open to
the criticism by going for an open, charismatic (style of) politics.”
China announced on Thursday that Bo, a rising star once tipped to reach the
very top in the ruling party, had been removed from his post in the
southwestern metropolis of Chongqing.
He remains a member of the party’s powerful Politburo, but analysts say his
political hopes are finished after a scandal involving a key aide who was
said to have tried to defect to the United States.
Source: agencies
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