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(AP) HEFEI, China – The wife of a fallen Chinese leader goes on trial Thursday on charges of murdering a British businessman in a politically charged case that may have little to do with whether she really killed him. Instead, the trial of Bo Xilai’s wife, Gu Kailai, is seen largely as a tightly managed way for the leadership to cauterize a political scandal that has embarrassed the Communist Party. “The men at the top have already made their decisions, and in conspicuous political trials like this, that’s where the decision is made,” said Perry Link, a Princeton University emeritus professor of East Asian studies. “So the trial, whatever the results and whatever the arguments, it will be theater, just theater.” Video:Bo Xilai’s wide charged with murderMurder trial of Bo Xilai’s wife likely to be quickBo Xilai scandal rocks secretive Chinese leadership The scandal has drawn attention to bare-knuckled infighting that politicians prefer to keep behind closed doors — particularly at a time when the government is preparing for a crucial once-a-decade political transition that will install a new generation of leaders. Until his fall, Bo was considered a contender for a top job. Key among the central leadership’s main objectives in Gu’s trial is to keep the focus tightly on the murder case and not on larger allegations of corruption that could further taint the communist regime, experts...

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(CBS News) Parts of China have suffered unusually heavy rains. Beijing got the equivalent of six months’ rain in one day. Then came deadly flooding, and now, say critics, comes a torrent of propaganda. It was the worst flooding in 60 years, but a lot of Chinese think officials at first downplayed the death toll to minimize the bad news. Originally reported at 37, it suddenly changed after questions on the internet and was raised to 77, and some don’t believe that number either. There were other questions too: Did city officials do a bad job planning the drainage system in a high-end part of town with a lot of new skyscrapers? Instead of an answer, officials quashed the criticism. When one blogger said: “they only know how to turn on the tap of positive propaganda,” the post was quickly deleted by authorities. There are other questions about Beijing’s building boom beyond faults in the drainage system, mostly focused on the quality of so much going up so fast. “Even when people buy luxury condos in China, they joke that it’s not going to last very long because they haven’t been built to last,” said Patrick Chovanec, a professor at Tsinghua University’s School of Economics and Management in Beijing. The one area that had no flooding was ancient Beijing, around the Forbidden City, 부산출장샵 once home to emperors. Its...