Hu Jintao sought Jiang Zemin’s advice in Bo Xilai affair

The Chinese president, Hu Jintao, left, and his predecessor Jiang Zemin stand on the Tiananmen balcony in 2009, the PRC's 60th anniversary. (Photo/Xinhua)

Hu Jintao, the Chinese president and general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, sought the advice of his predecessor Jiang Zemin over the handling of the Bo Xilai scandal, reports our Chinese-language sister newspaper Want Daily.

A political source in Beijing told Want Daily that Jiang, who was party leader between 1989 and 2002, has been living in the city's Western Hills region in recent months and was visited by Hu to discuss the affair of the disgraced party chief of Chongqing, the biggest political drama to hit China in more than two decades.

Bo has been stripped of all party posts and is being detained for unspecified "serious discipline violations," while his wife Gu Kailai has been arrested on suspicion of murdering British businessman Neil Heywood over a financial dispute, a crime Bo allegedly tried to cover up. Bo's former police chief, Wang Lijun, is facing treason charges for fleeing to the US consulate in Chengdu in February, allegedly conveying to US diplomats evidence of the the couple's misdeeds. Bo's supporters claim he has been set up by his political enemies for implementing leftist neo-Maoist policies in Chongqing, but the central leadership says the case is unrelated to politics.

During their conversation, Jiang told Hu that all political considerations must be cast aside when investigating Bo's case, according to the source. Jiang said Bo's crimes must be dealt with in accordance with the law and must be an "ironclad" case that can withstand the test of time, the source added. Bo's case has "broken the bottom line of human civilization," the former president was also quoted as saying.

Jiang's alleged recommendations were echoed in a party meeting reported by Reuters, in which Hu was said to have been at pains to point out that the Bo affair was an "isolated case" that was not guided by political motivations.

Last month, Jiang reportedly met a number of foreign visitors including Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz. Commentators said this was the 85-year-old's way of showing the world that he is still healthy and intends to make his influence felt during the upcoming 18th National Congress, where a new generation led by Vice President Xi Jinping will take over the party leadership.

Source: Want China Times

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