How a Top Official Did Not Get Away with Murder | The Big Steal
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 มี.ค. 2022
- Before his fall from grace, Bo Xilai was at the height of his power in China’s political establishment, considered a rival to no-less than Xi Jinping, the current President of China. However, the murder of a business associate marked the beginning of the end of Bo’s grasp on power.
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For those wondering, his wife was convicted and handed down a death sentence which was later commuted to life imprisonment.
I'm addicted to this series, phenomenal job vice!
I'm from Dalian. When Bo was the mayor here, it was the best years of Dalian. But I just realized today, that I knew so little about him.
No offense, but are you hired by the government to make positive comments about China so called "wumao"? If not why do you hide under this foreign alias while you're actually Chinese?
Me too and i remember those days well. But your name is spanish?
@@yibozhao1012 don't you know chinese love to LARP as foreigners when leaving messages on youtube to avoid being judged as a chinese??
@@sww3679 Wouldn't be the case if yall didn't criticise them just based on some alleged events committed by a few
城市像欧洲 农村像非洲
Actually that amount of corruption is not a big deal amongst other chinese officials... And the murder was committed by his wife not himself. What truly brought him down was simply the failure in the competition with 🐻
And Bo would be an accessory to his wife's murder
in russa its like every day shit
Bo already lost when he was sent to Chongqing, and not getting into the 9 person politburo.
Your premise of his downfall was due to his competition with Xi is false.
Yup corruption is bad but the worst is when your faction is not aligned with the one in charge, then you are screwed
Personally I don't agree with your last assessment. It was Hu-Wen that dealt away with him not Xi. Without the scandal Bo could most likely become a political ally of Xi, given their similar background and political alighment.
Awesome job, Mr. Atom!👌👍
In India all the MPs below 40 years old are princelings. They are sons, daughters, nephews, nieces of actual or former ministers, MPs....
Good for India! Ok
Not really! Dynasty politics are big but not every MP or even most MPs are results of nepotism,whether in India or even the more feudal Pakistan
India’s development is a joke in comparison to China. 😏
Thats true for almost all countries around the world.
Some far, far more than others. But indeed its a really shitty situation. I think we should just ban children and grandchildrrn of politicians or civil service from standing in elections (or even the children of billionares)
But thatll be against the constitution. Better to strengthen transparency in politics by forcing parties to give elected candidates (intra party) higher positions
i think you are talking about srilanka
5:03 “organized crime” shows police confiscating cheap bb guns 🤣
Pretty clear you don’t know shit about handguns lmao
Yeah I see a luger pistol it's ww1 pistol
Maybe the police is the organized crime
The typical chiabaduo propaganda
Being organized is different from being sophisticated
The 2019 movie The Laundromat has a scene about this
Sounds incredibly unlikely to be true
@@ryeastra262 + 500 social credit points for you.
Good film
Top officials didn't get away with murder because he was batting for a wrong team, instead of the right team - Team Xi.
Xi daddy ftw
actually he was the leader of "the wrong team", directly competing with xi for presidency. hes problem is that he lost XD
As if justice would be served in the west.
@@elicier4123 lol… even foreigner knew better than VICE
@@dznuts123 yeeee East or west, justice is whatever they wanted, we r just avenge Joe watching TH-cam and jackoff
The Princelings are NOT a faction. That's a term to describe the Sons of former revolutionaries and Xi Jinping is also considered a Princeling because his father was Xi Zhongxun, The main factions are the Jiang Zemin (Shanghai) faction and the Communist Youth League faction (CYL). Bother factions have had their influenced reduced by Xi who creating his own faction informally known as the Zhejiang Faction
Isn't there also the Li Keqiang faction? Even though Li himself is stepping down next year, his faction is nonetheless rather powerful and was considered to be rivaling Xi's influence.
@@christianv-h3278 No he's also CYL, Basically remember it like this.
1) Jiang Zemin (Shanghai Faction): Those guys who were close to Jiang and were promoted by him when he was head party boss in Shanghai. These guys favour big business and the big cities. Jiang used to have alot of influence but at his age that influence has waned especially after the 17th party congress, It's believed that the unofficial head is Zeng Qinghong but given he's also retired and some key members were purged in the great anti-corruption campaign until Xi then this factions influence has been reduced significantly.
2) Communist Youth League (Tuanpai Faction): Are those guys who worked their way up and had no connection to former revolutionaries. They are more technocratic and pragmatic and tend to favour market reforms over state run industries. The last president Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao are both Tuanpai. Li Keqiang belongs to this faction and they reformists. For example after Wuhan and China came out of this Covid crisis in 2020 Li was proponent of the night stall economy to stimulate the economy which wasn't favoured by Xi who wanted to move away from this kind of petite-bourgeois economy that was characteristic of China during the 80's to 00's. But given the situation he was able to push forward his ideas.
3) Xi Jinping (Zhejiang Faction): Like Jiang Zemin, Xi Jinping also promoted his own guys when he was party boss of Zhejiang however unlike Jiang, Xi Jinping is far more ideological and nationalistic. He believes in reasserting the state over private industry and has a grand vision of much more socialist China which will still pursue market reforms (i.e The Hainan free trade port) however his ultimate vision is of a country which most Marxists can relate to which is less based on private enterprise and more based on common ownership and of a country that is more focused on living in balance with nature over the interests of capital (i.e. Xiong'An new area).
It's important to understand that these factions are not opposition parties. All party members ultimately must stay loyal to the party's goals, charter and respect the unity of the party under the core leadership of the General Secretary. Every member that sits in Politburo and Standing Committee adheres to Dengism and Socialism with Chinese Characteristics.
The only time the party was under threat of being split was after Mao's death and the rise and fall of the Gang of four. Those who reject the ideas of the modern Communist Party of China are known as Marxist-Leninist-Maoists and take what is known as an "anti-revisionist" stance. They are the far left radicals who believe in exporting revolution across the entire global south. You have other tendencies like Maoist-Third Worldists who are radically anti-capitalist and completely reject aligning themselves with even the working class of 1st world countries who they see as bribed by capital or reactionary. These are the guys who long disappeared from the party and were the last elements to pose a threat to the party itself. Today China is firmly under Xi's leadership and there's no reason to think that Xi will face any real threat to serving another term. It's also suicidal to even try to form cliques that would threaten party unity as such elements would be immediately dealt with and any coup plotters would be rooted out by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. Certain party members have fallen out of line for numerous reasons (E.g Bo Xilai) however the party itself is a well oiled machine, It will continue unless there's weak leadership and party members become disillusioned and suffer low morale.
@@deezeed2817 wow, thanks for the detailed answer mate. That was very thorough. Could you recommend me some books to better understand the inner workings of the Politburo and the CCP? I really want to read more about this.
@@deezeed2817 Great info 👍👍👍
There's no factions. Its fake news meant to show there's no unity.
Came for the video, stayed for Atom Araullo.
I followed this whole thing closely at the time. This video is a good summary of all the available coverage by the West. I am sure there are a lot more than what had been covered, but we will never know. Both husband and wife were sentenced to death, but given "a suspended sentence"🤔.
does that mean they remain in prison or they live normally?
@@alexm566 In prison, most likely comfortably but they won't be allowed out anytime soon given the sensitivity and severity of the case.
@@alexm566 They both been given lifetime sentence
@@EPsuperFan considering the whole thing was revealed through a former official fleeing to a US consulate the current top brass certainly ain't letting those responsible for such massive taint on the government's image go anytime soon.
Xi is a princeling because his father was famous, however he cannot be compared with Bo Xilai since Xi rejected and denounced his father and rose to the top with purely hard work. He started off living in a cave and doing hard labor for years on a farm then worked his way up without his fathers connections.
BO Xilai is a brilliant guy, his mistake was being too arrogance and high profile of himself, that was stupid!
And the relationship of his wife "Gu" and that English conman Neil Heywood also caused him a big trouble !
@@jagdpanther2224 stop commenting that crap everywhere little tankie. Nobody believes the crap you post
Seeing Atom in Vice is quite surprising.
Getting a seat for a standing party, it made me smile
I like this Guy Accent, so lovely....
Succinct. 👍
Would have been nice to know the location for filming.
? Is this reposted because I had watched a very similar video 5 or 6 years ago.
You watched too many anti US videos.
Weird cutaways sequences of the journo just walking around an empty park
That’s your take away from this investigational report?
Vietnam: Noòbs, first time?
What ?
Atom in Vice? Wow. 😮😮😮
At this point, I think that it's a tradition for people at top level of society to be corrupted. Not all, but most.
It's a fierce competition. Being at the top while not corrupt is like being a top player as a F2P among super whales.
Are you an anchor on GMA 7 in Philippines?
Edit: Nevermind it's Atom.
In certain countries, pick the right side is more important then doing the right things.
in all countries
BO was being too arrogance and high profile of himself, that was stupid. And so does his playboy son, living in over luxurious life that made his father in notorious!
What camera was used to film this documentary
Its a cal culator powered by potato
@@berrybear2465 Cope
Let’s see how this goes 🤌🏼💪🏼
When they fight corruption in an authoritarian country, it means fighting the corruption of their political enemies.
And what does it mean in the west?
@@imadeanaccounttocomment7800 same thing, but in most cases you live to possibly run again.
Basically equivalent to eliminating 50% of corrupt officials. Rather than legalizing corruption, it is stronger than a 0% corruption strike rate.
@@imadeanaccounttocomment7800 mimimi ccp bot detected he is using strategy number one the what aboutism card. Do not fall for this bin chilling.
That’s the same for western countries too. I don’t know why you act like it’s unique to china
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Nope china doesn’t tolerate the BS other countries tolerate
Hahahaha all the wu maos and little pinkies are mad in the comments
Not da westoids being hypocritical 🤣💀
@3:11 you said you are quoting from SCMP but the bubble says NYT
Such a good documentary! Thanks!
1:50 hmm... your depiction of the CYL (Tuanpai) sounds alright, but I'm not sure if you can describe the Princelings as a political group like that... a Princeling is a Chinese politician defined but as a child of another Chinese politician. The son of the Tuanpai Wen Jiabao for example is a princeling, but chances are he thinks like his father. What it sounds like you're describing is the Shanghai Clique which is indeed full of Princelings who were appointed by it's leader Jiang Zemin, but ofc is not just a collection of all the Princelings. The Shanghai Clique is (or was... or what's left of it is) indeed full of proponents of the economic growth focus over the Tuanpai's socioeconomic concerns.
But Bo Xilai was not part of the Shanghai Clique. In fact you can probably say he was the furthest thing from it. Bo was one of the pioneers/crusaders of the Chinese New Left (which Xi Jinping is a part of), which has very much detested the Dengist neoliberal-ish politics Jiang wheeled in in the 90's. The New Left is very much concerned with the maintenance of Mao-reminiscient socialist principles in China and consequently the rollback of much Deng Xiaoping Thought-led reform (like you address in 3:50 and 4:50). Actually many of the Shanghai Clique cronies have been imprisoned by Xi's New Left anti-corruption campaigns.
Now this doesn't preclude you from saying that Bo Xilai himself prioritized economic growth if you want to (I don't know that claim to be wrong necessarily) but, 1. his clique was more of the New Left than the Princelings (which isn't a clique to begin with really) and 2. I don't know how accurate it would then be to say that the New Left as a whole particularly prioritizes economic growth really.
The name of their chinese watcher is Chun Li. That sounded like when Saddam Hussein's chemical weapons program was exactly like the plot of Nicholas Cage's movie The Rock. I swear that if a US air force major that looks just like Van Damme shows up I'll give up.
An incredible bunch of inhumane politicians.
Hahaha. In which universe do humane politicians exist? None!
I don't think Bush,Hillary, Trump Obama, Biden.... were humane politicians!
@@junkeatng Some are more evil and corrupt than others. Yes.
5:16 "tapping freak"? what is tapping freak?
One mistake in the video that Mao died in 1976 instead of 1979.
Do one in Vietnam please
Fascinating. The Cult convulses.
I stop watching the moment he said the corruption amount to 136-160million. Even a district mayor takes more than that.
Depending on the currency
@@hanschan1433 Even British Pound is nothing at his level.
Chongqin is provincial city, not just a regular city. It is nearly as big as South Korea.
How do you know?
@@chrischen1178 I assume you dont live in China
I am much more concerned about someone on the top here in the States and his cronies got away from the failed coup.
NOOOOOOOO Who the fuck would’ve guessed?!
Lezgo Atom!!
It won't be a corruption if it's not caught off. Morale story : don't get caught off
Would watch this on netflix
You should feature Philippine politics
And the US, where all retired generals are getting $$$$ from companies making weapons.
The video would be much better without the transitioning scenes of this guy walking with no dialogue at locations unrelated to the story of the video.
this story broke news in 2012, so late
Should be the opposite. The cadres care more about economic growth and the princelings are more Maoist.
Dont damage the narrative.
Xi's father fell out of favor. So hes a princeling with a stigma. Yet this vid equate him with bo xilai.
Dont damage the narrative.
Xi's father fell out of favor. So hes a princeling with a stigma. Yet this vid equate him with bo xilai.
The factions are mixed up - the Youth League are more concerned with market liberalization, while the Princelings are more concerned with socialist values. Also, massive oversimplification as there are several other factions such as Shanghai Clique.
5:03 isn't those airsoft Pistols, look carefully
Correction Organized Business not Organized Crime !!!!
😂
@@hue9962 Vietnamese like me !!!
This is the game of xi Jinping to destroy his opponent.
Yes you can say that but it was Bo being too high profile of himself and his damn playboy son that lead to his fallen!
This actually show people CPC has dynamics like other parties. It never only has 1 voice since beginning of the regime..Even DengXiaoPing was imprisoned previously during Mao regime..
But I rather to see this kind of politics. Politics are dirty, you don't need let politicians fight openly since it will distabilised the nation. As long country and parlements give food, roof, job and good life for it's people. It's enough..I don't care who is in power, as long they don't abuse the power to it's people. Then am good to go..we human being don't live long, so stable and good life is enough..
@@b6-xBear True! At least CPC letting people into the power not just because they can..those people who want to climb into the top must still show abundant of achievements for people to see..
If they want to get the credit, so be it, at least people also gets what they want too.
I really don't see a point to vote for politicians using vote system, because this just make politicians talk bs, bs and another bs, polish themselves with full of bs and charms..campaign bs promises..no need..I don't need voting, I rather to have meritocracy system..
Just let politicians fight among themselves, create allies themselves..by having that those who want to be in power will play gracefully. Because it is in human nature groups themselves within those who are having similar "goal". Rather than make people below fight for politicians who we know some will only talk BS..
@@xueueux totally agree, in democratic countries you’re voting on who has more charisma and knows how to sell their image, while in China is whoever is more competent. Not saying China is perfect, but every system has its pros and cons, and China is still a developing country despite its economic growth, it still has a lot to improve upon but they’re not doing half bad in my opinion.
@@b6-xBear lol developing, and it’s already one of the top 3 powers.
@@BobMarley-vl5gl 1 Chinese = 1 human being, so we should measure it per capita
So Many wu maos in this comment section. Please little pinkies, keyboard warriors, grow a pair of balls instead of ruining your social credit score using a vpn.
$130 - $160M, chicken feed, you must be kidding yourself, try Billions ???!!!!
ayoooo Vice made a video on 秦城的汉子
Winnie the Pooh took out his opponent that day
now, xi is doing his job
Funny how half of this video was showing you walking
Better question is why he got busted this time. This guy was clearly untouchable but all of a sudden he gets busted? Common brah we want the REAL story
The whole thing being exposed to the open by an official fleeing to a us consulate explains it
come to philippines, we love corrupt officials here.
Moral of the story: don't get murdered in China.
Christ! You said his name about a hundred times.....incorrectly.
@5:04 those are toy guns along with airsoft guns........
Bo Xilai was a British Agent...MI6
Thats why Neil Heywood must keep his mouth shut and no appearences forever!
woah no shit! atom!!!!!!!!!
In usa, u can get away with anything as long as you have money. No need to be on the wrong team.
4:09 why do they have SEATS if it's a STANDING committee? Pfff dingalings
Vice you need to up your game, so many mistakes. Even your video doesn't correspond with your audio content. And what is that rumor about you rating out your sources?
you need to up your english. you make no sense
Feel free to disprove with sources
@@hchen2513 what sources? His aidio says one thing and his graphic says another, the mistake is not even factual, it is just pure editorial!
After “according to veteran China watcher” reference I had to stop watching
Is Mr. Ping also princeling...
He still would have a better leader the Winnie the Pooh. His wife really destroyed his chance and maybe perhaps China chance to be more integrated with the world.
🐻 got him
china isn’t a real pure dictatorship country after all, it’s more like an upper-class republic country
It has always been like that. Replace current government with whatever and the outcome will be the same. People think that just because they vote in a paper the core of how their society operates will change. South Korea and Japan are pretty examples of that. Who really rules in those countries? The officials they elected? 😂 So naive.
Ah, but you gotta claw your way up top. You gotta climb the rank.
Kinda like in the military. Regardless of your connection, you gotta climb the rank.
Thus, no matter how incompetent they were, they are still more competent than a system where people can BS their way to the top.
> upper-class republic country
So just like America lol
@@sleepyjoe4529 Nah, quite different.
To reach top political position, all ccp members gotta claw their way up.
In usa, one could...well..BS their way up.
@@sleepyjoe4529 Nope..CPC officials at least need to show what have they did..example gain investment for particular area under them ruling, create effective regulations and laws that benefit the people, etc..they still see the meritocracy..
For me this is like "samba" in football move..people need to play gracefully, they can't just keep doing offsides and expect to get MVP..Chinese commoners and the politic competitors will boo on them and that will never be good for "clean" image..
I like this kind of play better than just punch people in the face to get in power similar to those in US, people just can be in power because they can..
This documentary is nice but doesn’t explore at all the possibility that the British guy who had links with British intelligence services was not murdered by Bo’s wife
Is there any lead that follows into that direction?
doesn't really matter tbh, the topic is China's poltician corruption, and the fact that they are damn rich while only having meager wages, if you want to plant a conspiracy on british intelligence, China has been doing that to the US for years, at this point it who says who.
Doesnt matter, Neil Heywood knowing too much, he has to keep his mouth shut forever. The Chinese helped him to be quiet!
@@gab_gallard yes but I let you explore it. The timing, just before the election of new PM, is already so strange.
@@nunyabz9494 I'm not sure. What's important is that this moment determined the current state of affairs. Bo was seen as the upcoming PM, Xi wasn't. After that everything changed. Bo was seen as less capitalist than Xi. One of the main thing Xi did was to open the stock market to foreign investments which was favorable to western interests.
come on, its china. what can you expect.
No knock on this reporter, but "Bo" is pronounced "Boah" as in the first part of the word "bored" not "Bow" as in "bow and arrow"
Mao died in 1976, not 1979
xi's wife and her accomplice got a death sentence with two-year reprieve.
You mean BO's wife "Gu", right?
the chinese goverment is like kim jun un ngl thats why i keep saying the goverment neets to step down n renew it self
Bo Xilai
A watershed moment in modern Chinese political game of thrones.
Imagine Bo and worse still his wife got into power. China would have headed down the road of Oligarchy state with no turning back.
YAWA ATOM MAN YAN
That was the Chinese Hilary vs trump moment:
No..... Absolutely nothing like that. 🤦♂️
That reminded me Prince Andrew and Epstein! 😘😀😀
@@jonhall2274 yeah, Chinese people don’t have voting right, but is there really a choice between both of them
He was killed because he didn't share with the mighty dragon 🐉. Corruption is only fine if the leader is let in on it.
Jeffrey Epstein
Prince Andrew......haha😂✌😘
as long u are not in the same side you are destined to be punished
they made a business human organs Chinese communist colonialist for their own, and trying same international level!
Now make this sentence coherent instead of gibberish.
Chinese just mad cause Taiwan is better.
How?
China is so beta they're threatened by a tiny island that makes beef noodle soup and laptops.
#TaiwannotapartofChina
#FreeHongKong
#WestPhilippineSea
In your propaganda now leave china alone
@@qjtvaddict They don't appear to be leaving Taiwan alone.
@@laknidubandara they did steal 500million people's wealth when they ran to taiwan. Call it debt collecting.
Atom, what are you doing in Vice, you are part of US government payroll now?
China number 1
Omg it's just so cringe pronouncing chinese names with completely wrong tones .
And intentionally equating xi jingping with bo xilai...despite their family's different background.
I can't tell what I hate more ccp or vice
This episode might be the worst quality from Vice.
British consultant? What for? Everyone knows that he was a money launderer. Your narration doesn’t proof who really killed the money launderer. How come you’re so sure? Who is behind you and how much you received for this?
Exitus acta probat. Xi Jinping turns out to be the best choice for China, much better than GW Bush, princeling of the Bush family, for the US. Bo Xilai was ambitious but not corrupt. He took the fall for his wife.
Bing chilling chilling Bing roses are red violets are blue nobody cares what a wu Mao says
zzz liberals and conservatives crying
lol u mad about Chinese people arresting Chinese people? dumbass
wtf happened to vice? is this a joke? satire? wtf