The Framing of Bo Xilai
Or: How the East was won
by Justin Raimondo, April 13, 2012
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2012/04/12/the-framing-of-bo-xilai/
http://www.911forum.org.uk/board/viewtopic.php?p=160888#160888
Murder and politics – they go together quite
well. Wars, assassinations, violent purges: these
are the woof and warp of politics, which is,
after all, nothing but organized coercion or the
threat of it. Combine this with international
intrigue, and the opportunism that thrives in the
heart of all politicians, and you couldn’t come
up with a better narrative to outline if not
explain the current leadership struggle in China.
Neil Heywood was an adventurer, or so he liked to
think: a British businessman with links to a
company founded by "ex"-MI-6 operatives, he was
close to the family of Bo Xilai, the ambitious
and now disgraced former secretary of the
Communist Party in Chongqing. Bo was a rising
leader of what has been mistakenly referred to as
China’s "new left," a popular leader who rid his
city of organized crime, attracted much foreign
investment, and was angling for a spot on the
Politburo’s all-powerful Standing Committee. He
also aroused the ire of China’s supposedly
"reformist" leadership, and as such he was in
their sights when the current scandal broke – a
scandal that provoked rumors of a coup, caused
the Chinese authorities to crack down on the
internet, and brought the British government into
the mix on the current leadership’s side.
When Heywood was found dead in his hotel room,
after having been summoned to Chongqing, the
initial verdict was that he had a heart attack,
like his father before him. He had been drinking,
said the local police, and his family raised no
questions about his death, dismissing rumors that
he had been murdered as preposterous. All that
changed, however, when Bo began directly
criticizing the Chinese leadership: see my
previous piece on the background story here.
Bo was summarily dismissed from his post, and his
wife, Gu Kailai, stands accused of Heywood’s
murder. Both have disappeared from view.
In China, politicians don’t just "fall from favor" – they plummet.
The murder charge is almost certainly trumped up:
the chief "witness," Wang Lijun, was Bo’s chief
of police, who was himself under investigation by
central authorities and had been summoned to
Beijing to spill the dirt on Bo. When he
returned, he showed up at Bo’s office and
informed him that his wife had Heywood poisoned.
Wang has also since disappeared.
The Wall Street Journal is pushing this story
big-time: they have a breathless account of
Heywood’s "final hours," including a sub-plot
about mysterious "documents" detailing Bo’s
overseas investments stashed away in England:
their story cites a "friend" of Heywood’s who say
he feared for his safety. There is good reason to
doubt the veracity of this anonymous tipster, if
only because it contradicts numerous press
accounts that describe Heywood as "happy" in the
days before his death: a New York Times piece
says he had "moved beyond" his relationship with
Bo’s family and other accounts report he hadn’t
seen either Bo or anyone in his family for a year.
It is being reported that questions about
Heywood’s death were raised, not by his family,
but by the "British expatriate community" in
Chongqing: this, however, appears to be a
euphemism for the British government, as this
tweet by William Hague indicates. Heywood’s James
Bond-ish persona combined with his business
affiliations should cause a few alarm bells to go
off about this affair: in addition to his own
consulting firm, Heywood-Boddington, the deceased
also worked for Hakluyt & Co., founded by former
officers of the British spy agency MI-6. Hakluyt
is described by one top Australian government
security official as "aggressive and invasive" as
far as corporate intelligence companies go, and
this is borne out by their record: they were
caught, in 2001, infiltrating and spying on
European "green" groups on behalf of Shell Oil and British Petroleum.
Hakluyt, which also operates as the "Hakluyt
Foundation," is part of a pattern established by
MI-6 in the 1960s, when several "consultancies" –
e.g. Diversified Corporate Services, operating
out of Rome, London, and New York – were set up
as, essentially, fronts. As one source describes
the spookish origins of Hakluyt:
"Set up in 1995 by the late Sir Fitzroy MacLean,
with a board that includes a former Royal Dutch
Shell managing director and a former BP deputy
chair, the Hakluyt Foundation provides leading
British businesses with information that clients
‘will not receive by the usual government, media
and commercial routes’. Hakluyt’s managing
director, Christopher James, was until 1998 in
charge of MI6's liaison with commerce, while a
fellow-director, Mike Reynolds, was regarded as
one of the Service’s brightest stars."
Heywood’s affiliation with Hakluyt, with its top
drawer political and corporate connections –
including links to British oil and mining
interests – is a strong indication there’s more
to his death than is at first apparent. This is
an outfit that sports Javier Solana, former EU
foreign minister and NATO secretary-general, and
former Senator Bill Bradley on its international
"advisory" board. It could be a coincidence that
Royal Dutch Shell has recently been granted major
oil concessions by the Chinese government – the
same leadership clique that opposes Bo.
On the other hand, maybe not.
What is happening in China today is very similar
to what happened in Russia after the Communist
implosion: the "reformist" leadership in Beijing
is quietly selling off the nation’s "socially
owned" resources to the highest bidder, creating
a class of ostensibly "Communist" princelings –
the sons and daughters of high-ranking leaders
from the "revolutionary" era – who are living off
the fat of the land. They are making themselves
fantastically wealthy by establishing cozy
relationships with Western corporate interests,
taking bribes, allying with China’s gangster
underworld, and handing out favors and
concessions to the highest bidder. If and when
the full story of China’s "Yeltsin years" is ever
told, it will no doubt resemble the large-scale
looting of the post-Communist Russian economy,
which gave rise to the infamous Russian
"oligarchs." With one difference: there is a lot more wealth in China to loot.
Just because of who he was, the murky
circumstances surrounding Heywood’s death are
inextricably intertwined with the struggle of
competing corporate interests to profit from the
China market – and the factional struggle this
has set off within the ranks of the Chinese
Communist Party’s top leadership, the first such battle in 20 years.
In China, we are seeing a changing of the guard,
as the old "reformist" leadership grouped around
the late Deng Xiaoping, passes its legacy to a
new generation of "collective leadership." The
plan is that, with the "princelings" in charge,
and China’s crony-capitalist oligarchy firmly in
the saddle, the nation would advance on the road to the "Four Modernizations."
Bo was an obstacle on that road: with his
anti-corruption initiatives, his smashing of
gangster networks, and his expressed desire to
have ordinary Chinese benefit from the enormous
wealth pouring into the country, the
now-disappeared Chongqing party secretary and
populist hero posed the first serious threat to
the leadership in many years. The linking of his
wife to Heywood’s death is clearly just the
beginning of a smear campaign, the full ferocity
of which has yet to be unleashed.
China’s oligarchs fear their restive people, and
they acted quickly when rumors of a military coup
swept the Chinese internet: the censors moved in
and tried to stem the tide of speculation, as the
government propaganda machine went into high
gear, linking Bo to "leftists" who want to bring
back the Bad Old Days of the Cultural Revolution.
I would be surprised if Bo and his wife reappear
as defendants in a public show trial, similar to
the trial of the Gang of Four – after all, the
less public discussion of the affair, the better
for the ruling elite – but I wouldn’t rule it out
altogether. If it happens, you can be sure it
will be a carefully staged affair, with little if
any opportunity for the accused to mount a real defense.
In Russia, Communism fell with a thunderous
crash, scattering all kinds of debris across the
international landscape and leaving an open power
vacuum that was quickly filled by a perpetually
inebriated "leader" and various gangster
networks. In China, Communism fell as a leaf
falls from a tree: slowly, even languidly gliding
down to earth. That this soft landing is being
helped along by numerous corporate interests with
links to Western governments — who are profiting
enormously in the process – is a story largely
untold. The Heywood affair, mystifying and murky
on the surface, illuminates yet another chapter
in the long-running serial, which might be entitled "How the East Was Won."
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