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Frenzied hours for US on fate of a China insider (Obama rejected Bo Xilai aide defection attempt)
NDTV ^ | April 18, 2012 | Steven Lee Myers and Mark Landler

Posted on 04/19/2012 3:04:18 PM PDT by Zhang Fei

Washington: On the evening of February 6, a vice mayor of a major Chinese city who had a reputation as a crime fighter turned up at the American Consulate in Chengdu in an agitated state, telling a tale of corruption and murder that has ensnared the Obama administration in a scandal it wants nothing to do with.

Wang Lijun was taken past police officers loyal to a powerful former patron, Bo Xilai.

The official, Wang Lijun, sought asylum, fearing for his life even as Chinese security forces quickly surrounded the building and asked the American diplomats inside to turn him over.

Instead, after a frantic debate that reached the White House, Mr. Wang stayed until he could arrange for an official from a Beijing ministry to come 36 hours later and escort him past the local security cordon.

The authorities from Beijing took him into custody, and he is now under investigation for divulging internal Chinese affairs to the Americans. If charged with and convicted of treason, he could face a death sentence.

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According to the officials' version, the American diplomats who oversaw his brief, bizarre stay pre-empted any formal application for asylum because of the difficulties of spiriting him out of the country and questions about his eligibility.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; presclusterfluck
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To: Zhang Fei

He will take no action to the benefit of America. ABO.


21 posted on 04/19/2012 7:58:52 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: GraceG

Giving BHO the benefit of the doubt, his rolling up so much debt certainly was playing into China’s hands and tying ours. Perhaps, despite wanting to do what’s best for the country, he simply couldn’t play it hard...


22 posted on 04/19/2012 8:04:54 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Reverend Wright

I wonder whom would be tinker tailer sailor, poor man and beggarman in the current administration. Perhaps they all are spies or collaborators so on that point we have equality in the executive branch.


23 posted on 04/20/2012 4:31:52 AM PDT by Mouton (Voting is an opiate of the electorate. Nothing changes no matter who wins..)
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To: Zhang Fei
Frenzied hours for US on fate of a China insider (Obama rejected Bo Xilai aide defection attempt)

In case anyone forgot, the Secretary of State is Hillary Clinton. What was her role in this? And why is she sitting on related documents that have been requested by the Congressional House Committee on Foreign Affairs?

Gee, Hillary obstructing justice. How unusual.

24 posted on 04/20/2012 6:25:03 PM PDT by Talisker (He who commands, must obey.)
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To: Zhang Fei

That’s a nice theoretical case - commercial intelligence assets - but we, all of us here, have no knowledge that the individual in question represents such an asset and thereby no basis for a case that we are ‘giving up’ such an asset.

Though it is important that we not limit our choices of commercial intelligence assets to Saints, the fact that the individual in question is not a Saint is not evidence that he was an intelligence asset or wanted to be.


25 posted on 05/23/2012 3:29:32 PM PDT by Wuli
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