GFP Note: Reports indicate that this murder trial is creating another crack in China's communist party system as news of corruption at the top leaks to the public via the internet.
USAToday
Published August 8, 2012
Updated August 9, 2012
By Calum MacLeod
Bo Xilai
BEIJING – The murder trial of the wife of a disgraced Communist Party leader aims not for justice but to ensure that the public does not blame the party for the scandal, experts said on the eve of the trial.
"We will not be much wiser to what actually happened after the trial. We will only know what the party would like the rest of the world to know," said Steve Tsang, director of the China Policy Institute at the University of Nottingham in England.
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