China’s Bo Xilai show trial of once mighty leader is true political theater put on by dictatorship

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China’s Bo says police chief’s evidence ‘full of lies’

AFP – Fallen Chinese politician Bo Xilai accused his former police chief, whose flight to a US consulate ignited a lurid scandal, of being a liar and a fraudster Sunday, the fourth day of a gripping corruption trial. Before the judge abruptly adjourned.

The corruption trial of China’s onetime political superstar Bo Xilai combines elements of unusual openness with traditional controls rooted deep in the one-party state and the country’s long history, analysts say. Bo, who held sway over nearly 30 million.