Bo Xilai: Inside the Scandal - A WSJ Documentary

[@MyCarllee]

As a native Chongqing Citizen, I still appreciate what he has done for Chongqing. It was very reassuring seeing police cars parked every few kilometers in the city. The crackdown on organized crimes has its problems, but the city ended up being so much safer. It's like Harvey Dent in Batman got what he wanted but with questionable ends.

[@Gasinduced]

Great analogy!

[@WBCY2024]

I’m from Dalian. A fishing village, that became a regional powerhouse because of him.

[@WBCY2024]

ElPocho DelMundo problem with Bo is he is to far left, ironically. You would think that’s good in a communist country but China is way more complicated than that. Inner political struggle is insane and in secrecy. This is the real game of thrones, you play, you win, or you die.

[@晶晶白-t9i]

Carl Lee 大连人民表示一样

[@RoboJules]

Bo Xilai was my personal favorite to take over after Hu Jintao, but unfortunately, y'all got Xi instead. That man is actively killing all the progress China has made in the last 30 years, and turning it into such a totalitarian state that I'm afraid of setting foot in China. This is after I planned to live and work in China, as my favorite culture well and truly is Chinese culture. Now I'm thinking Thailand, Vietnam, or Taiwan.

[@raymundsantos3596]

DID I JUST HEAR CHINA UNCENSORED THEME??

[@ethanpaul878]

lol same also why is this being recommended 7 years later

[@raymundsantos3596]

@@ethanpaul878 Chris chapel recommended it 😅

[@snowfox-xc1qq]

Just discovered this after Chinacensored rabbit hole consistent

[@ramonching7772]

Exactly! The WSJ is supposedly a prestigious publication. So I always spend a few minutes to evaluate them. But it is always a disappointment. The WSJ painted him like a saint. But gloss over the fact that Hayward did mention about wealth hidden in foreign land. Mind you, it's not the communist party making the accusation. But an accomplice.

[@woodherman4739]

The way the narrator described Chongqing was quite ignorant. Chongqing is actually one of the wealthiest cities in China because it is one of the four municipalities of the country. The other three cities? Beijing, Tianjin, and Shanghai. The city also possesses great scenery, vacation spots, mountain range, and beautiful women. For a politician in China, it is a dream come true to reside in Chongqing because it is far away from the central government. Otherwise, good documentary.

[@RonaldMcPaul]

What's that Shelly?

[@feroxseneca8997]

It’s an OK investigation, but a lot of important details are absent in the narrative, and there are intelligent theories about the actors’ motivations that really should have gotten mentioned.

[@CJinsoo]

The Game of Thrones type plot is probably handled better at some other sites. Still, this is decent.

[@petewenzel2725]

@steve crawford Yes. He’s in Qincheng.

[@vantastroganoff4370]

XI SIDE PLAYED WANG Good read Iron blooded police spirit Wang eh idiot,he was lock in room cctv control He wanted bo to save him,his cute record before this post layered with fraud & dumb wife paranoia and love for egotistical son,with heyward feeling hurt 1 year before politburo All work for xi and life goes on..

[@kaiwencheng4677]

1, Chongqing is not a part of Sichuan Province; it's an autonomies city as BJ, SH... 2, Chongqing is not so foggy as is shown; one of Bo's Blue Sky Plan works pretty well. 3, Truth, sought by many of us, will not be revealed after the serious and real history changes. Through many chats with my folks, 9 out of 10 speak highly of him and his deeds, which will be the hard evidence and witness in future.

[@RonaldMcPaul]

They don't say Chongqing is in SiChuan province, moron, they say that it's located on the edge of it.

[@IIrandhandleII]

Fog Haha you mean smog

[@mrbarbastathiss3739]

Actually most people liked Bo and his policies. He was too careless maybe, but all party elites came together to crush him. The irony is that Xi Jinping, who defeated and imprisoned Bo, has now moved to the left and adopted some of Bo's policies.

[@rei_cirith]

He probably got too popular so the party probably just framed him with these crimes. If he was just a bit smarter, he would have waited until he got higher up before he tried to make these power moves.

[@ExtraordinaryLiving]

Probably ... He should have read Robert Greene's "The 48 Laws of Power". ;)

[@wishfulguy4819]

He was too cruel. He involved in illegal activities. The wife was a murderer. He involved in string of corruption. All his peers were ruthless in the black organisation.

[@antoinesilva1527]

@@wishfulguy4819 I mean, this could be used to describe every Politburo member.

[@Benzi514]

"Fatal blow to the party" - that aged like fine milk.

[@Ks-zz9lh]

Amazing small doc.. please more docs about Chinese politics plz!

[@ghostf6321]

Aside from his wife potentially being the murderer of that British guy I don't really get what Bo himself did wrong.

[@TheScriptsmith]

Nice production values but little here that we don't already know.

[@martymcfly5423]

Even after watching this video i have no clue what Bo Xilai did wrong.

[@ArchesBro]

A power struggle within the Chinese Communist Party caused him to be purged. Everyone in China is corrupt, charging someone for corruption is simply to consolidate political power.

[@ajisenramen888]

It’s like what the Democrats did to Bernie

[@elivevile]

the video mentioned that Bo Xilai's methods , while popular amongst common people, didn't have much respect for the laws, he was practically playing cowboy shooting from the hip. that's already a recipe for disaster, IMHO...

[@ramonching7772]

The western media like WSJ wants to muddy the real story. The real story should be Hayward mentioning about Bo's hidden wealth. Corruption.

[@DontUputThatEvilOnMe]

Ajisen Ramen not to the scale of this tho. Bernie is still running in the 2020 Democratic primaries.

[@galaxymode]

Bo Xilai was actually a good leader, he transformed ChongQing, Dalian, improved people's lives, made ChongQing Dalian one of the cleanest cities in China, but that doesn't mean he can do corruption.

[@zxwang5003]

galaxymode he is not ,just pretending to be , inside him hi is more like a politician but not a leader ， his wife is so greedy and put him back .

[@serahiever]

I appreciate WSJ's effort to provide an almost impartial outline of Bo's case. And I totally agree that anyone should face charges in court whatever political figure he was when violations of laws were proven, not to mention a murder. Yet as for the criticism of Chinese political/juridical/bureaucratic systems, western media have formed a stereotype that one matter what the state does, it is done in a black box full of questions. They talk of justice, but justice is only in their hands.

[@kaifang1242]

Appreciated WSJ's effort, gave us a very clear story.

[@XiangYu94]

Bo Xilai’s charisma and political rise & fall reminds me of Mark Antony. Xi Jingping certainly feels like an Octvatian; Huo Guofeng was a Pompey Magnus. Deng Xiaoping was like an economic Gaius Marius. Also, side note - the downfall of China’s leadership has always been the issue of succession. Multi generational planning has been a facet of Chinese culture, but it’s hard to sustain continuity when the younger generations begin to see what their counterparts across the world have access to.

[@THEEck5000]

Who’s the Gaius Julius Caesar of this great analogy? I’m very intrigued by this due to my obsession with late Republican Roman history.

[@XiangYu94]

@@THEEck5000 probably Hu Jintao, as he was a sort of mentor for the Shanghai Clique. Jiang Jemin would be a close second as well.

[@takebackkean]

they linked it because it is good reporting and very inportant.

[@warttattongssa]

His wife was worst ever in China as well.

[@xinglinjiang4952]

how?

[@vantastroganoff4370]

She kill his soui SHOULD have poison that bird lady,sparrow Xi outsmart him,wang fell for the trap

[@radioactivsmurf]

If you think thats the only reason then you are very naive. This case is very complex and involves many partys. Yes like you say about corruption there is that, and there are also other nations trying to distabalize China's goverment. Neil Heyward is not as innocent as he seems. Curruption is standard in any civilzation, its human nature.

[@celinejesus7703]

Can you post Chinese subtitles please? Chinese need to know about this And post English subtitles too please

[@humbleonemoretime7025]

This is partially propaganda Chinese don't need to know

[@MyCarllee]

It was in the national news, including all the details dislcosed by Neil Hailwood. All Chinese citizen know as much as WSJ

[@celinejesus7703]

Carl Lee who is the white guy had been murdered by Xi, was that British businessmen?

[@MyCarllee]

@@celinejesus7703 He's murdered by Bo's wife

[@bigusdickus9903]

@@celinejesus7703 He wasn't murdered by Xi, and WSJ later confirmed that he had been working for the MI6, funny that they mentioned that he drove in a car with a plate numbered 007

[@lousyowl9102]

In the west and the USA , corrupt politicians are not punished , but rewarded instead

[@HeyGuy4321]

13:04 lol they make her photo achromatic when they say the relationship started to deteriorate

[@vantastroganoff4370]

Love it..i think china went a bit crazy with spending BUILDING out,now usa wanna stop silk road investment to neighbors at high rate,china wanna lock them in,geo politics most dont see

[@sr420det]

He was a rivel of xi that's why he went down. He didnt do anything that wasn't common with other leaders

[@celinejesus7703]

sr420det oh

[@satanlover134]

That foto you used is weird why show him on its angle

[@DavidBeachem]

He kinda looks like Jackie Chan... corrupt crimes brought me here

[@ShadeOnTheUtube]

Or maybe it's just that the story was good enough for TYT to want to share it without the hassle of integrating it into their own show.

[@shenjian1261]

he is the head cutting man in game of throne！

[@Sean-he3cm]

Can't help but notice this doc was filmed in China, or maybe BJ. Kinda disappointed on WSJ's stance that the BXL's scandal inside is not that "inside" if we can extract these materials from Internets easily, and without any mentionings related to the connections to power core in BJ CCP about Bo's imprisonment.

[@joshuaharrell554]

Filmed in China? It looks like a lot of stock footage from Dalian, Beijing, Chongqing, and Chengdu. Did they actually do any filming in China?

[@llVIU]

china uncensored guy: Bo Xilai me: bushy lie?

[@hikarikun7855]

Singapore also uses three languages including Malay, English and Chinese. But She never says which political entity forced them to use any of the languages.In Hong Kong its sensitive to tell , you like Chinese at this moment

[@CraigSips]

Not angry at anybody. Just see the world for what it is and it has made me cynical. If I see an absurd comment I will stick my two cents in, not because I am angry but because I am chatty. p.s your comment re. corporations is spot on its just a shame that most folks are too busy blaming each other to see the truth of things.

[@tonywong303]

Almost all people in Dalian miss him so much

[@wangbob4617]

really？

[@tomarintomarin9520]

@@wangbob4617 THat's not true.

[@tonywong303]

tomarin tomarin 你知道个屁

[@tomarintomarin9520]

@@tonywong303 wo cong xiao zhu zai lvshun wo buzhidao ? shabi

[@tonywong303]

tomarin tomarin 旅顺？你特么哪个村的？傻逼

[@TheRacistsMustDie]

Interesting. I can't really decide if Bo Xilai at the rudder would've been beneficial for China or that the establishment has done good by preventing him from assuming ever higher positions as charisma never comes without danger. (That is assuming a morally neutral, pro-China point of view.)

[@timothygent6716]

< ..> watching I'm burning information

[@allmc3120]

Good piece of documentary, playing politics in China, future is dim and doomed.

[@okonomiyaki51]

Why were you on the YoungTurds page?

[@DaveTan65]

0:33 Prescient

[@carolinebarrere3095]

The story started for the Heywood family weeks before the murder, in London

[@GeneralGhost]

Great documentary, very informative.

[@nottalackey3587]

He should have declined an invitation to lunch with Jimmy Hoffa.

[@patthonsirilim5739]

@steve crawford when you work for a dictator like boss you either leave when things get to tough or you stay the course never betray thing never end well for snitches in any society

[@jackgaisano1640]

The fall of a high profile crime fighter

[@wishfulguy4819]

He was a criminal in short.

[@CraigSips]

what are you on about? the UK was not in Korea

[@Edithhandle]

KZbin ads👎

[@megaaxon8061]

Thank you Chris Chapel (& WSJ) for your amazing work!

[@Demarcoa]

that's cool. Thanks for sharing that!

[@andrenewcomb3708]

Communist capitalism is the same all over no matter what the labels are. Problems anyone might have (like myself) is probably more local than authoritatively conceptual. The goal is 'no more war'. "War's" motivations are numerous. It takes awhile to make things sensible and feasible. China is experiencing modernization that will probably also experience growing pains as wealths & labors become more fairly distributed globally . . . like Britain and the USofA is experiencing.

[@kaiwencheng4677]

+1,totally!

[@Marcara081]

We've got plenty enough scandals in America, why not direct your WSJ 'journalism' within our borders and do some good for a change?

[@mohmeegaik6686]

Yes Bo Xilai is a great planner& executor of Chongqing development. However, he overreach his power & became corrupted. His daughter tried to enter European society by participating in the incredible expensive debutante ball, unsuitable for Chinese citizens behaviour.

[@markrusso6638]

Is it true he had enough money to pay a movie star a million plus for one night of fun? If so, he is my hero.

[@xgzhang2669]

Mark Russo Just rumors,he do not need to pay any money as a powerful leader,also a charming gentleman.

[@shijianboxiong8667]

in his position, one doesn't really need to pay

[@iknowu6068]

yep, he surely is your hero.

[@radioactivsmurf]

I didn't say there was anything wrong with your opinion, but it was just one single minded opinion. And if you think this world operates like a fairytale and every other nation lives happily ever after like a "fairytale". Then you need to open your eyes and see the truth. This world runs on Global resources, without resources countries will fall. Think about that for a moment. And think about what nations will do for resources. Think about the horrors.

[@rogerszeto8419]

The documentary didn't seem to mention Hu Jin Tao's visit to Chongqing that seems to be a big part of the play. How thorough are you guys at The NY Times? JK probably left it out on purpose

[@chinahuman2000]

权力的游戏

[@raduandrei1289]

It`s not like the U.K. didn`t go to war on the U.S's side in all those wars.

[@SerajAlhorany]

It seems like he has done good to his province with little bit corruption. In my country government officials steal without doing anything good.

[@timothygent6716]

Sits down

[@armanika]

Why doesn't TYT discuss "Fast and Furious" fiasco? (I am a progressive, just thought needed to pre-announce)

[@jan22150]

Well Bo is in the hot chair now.

[@CraigSips]

I cant remember being in Vietnam or Korea but lately we have been just as guilty

[@reigak6599]

这个货要不是自己太张扬太高调，江山就是他的了。。。

[@14zz]

烂。

[@jiayushen9695]

就是自己作死了 他哪怕稍微低调点 就可以了

[@zxwang5003]

苍天保佑 他进去了，不然中国会倒退20年

[@magicinaye]

Taxi drivers in Beijing talk about politics everyday.

[@magicinaye]

@Chokyi Nima Open your ears and learn Mandarin. Chinese has a complaint culture. I have barely listened to appreciate to the government. People complained about everything in Chinese society, e. g. house price. China and CCP are totally different things in China. We love our country like you do I guess. But that doesn't necessarily apply to the appreciation of the ruling party. Also you should know in group and outgroup talk.

[@magicinaye]

@Chokyi Nima I guess we know the scandal about Xi and Bo more than you do?

[@magicinaye]

@Chokyi Nima All well-educated Chinese have the ability to read ancient Chinese without translation. We read lots of history books for examination and we know the history can teach today. SORRY, We are not idiots who only know how to love CCP. We are born with critical thinking.

[@blackdeathdoc9964]

重庆当时真的有变很好么？照我的理解他打击文强只不过是要树立威信罢了

[@user-master-Lin]

Blackdeath Doc good

[@icantstopnow]

they did check june 25 and 7

[@mwgr2]

It would have been an absolute disaster.

[@MrHaveaword]

"Paid for by the Ministry of Culture"

[@stevenoh88]

TYT and WSJ Online have a loose partnership where TYT can use footage from WSJ without running into copyright issues. WSJ Online does actual news and investigation as well as opinion. TYT does commentary on news and investigation from various sources. WSJ is now one of those sources, so when we see something on WSJ that we like, we use it.

[@Troy-ol5fk]

At least he's good at his job

[@mou4479]

he is a good person

[@TheRacistsMustDie]

Well that's exactly what I'm not sure about. He seems to have achieved a lot where he was in charge, but on the other hand people with character are always in some sense dangerous.

[@lemanlie2356]

Mr.xi.👍👍👍. Heroes

[@oO_ox_O]

at least you could form a full sentence without being… oh look a butterfly!

[@raduandrei1289]

The Vietnam observation is just, Korea on the other hand, not so accurate.

[@antoinesilva1527]

Not really.

[@vantastroganoff4370]

SHOULD have got rid of that witch She betrayed him.wang got played by enemies to fell so low The debt of over building is the PROBLEM

[@issagc]

Why is TYT linking to the Wall Street Journal? Are they trying to get Murdoch to fund the show?

[@CraigSips]

my bad, I see they contributed 14,000 troops.

[@riccia888]

Why so foggy

[@bbqzxk]

Chongqing is the “fog city”

[@nebreprah]

Ecco

[@MK-jc6us]

Story about his son has little to do with the overall power struggle. Everybody knows that rich kids in China waste millions inside China and abroad. Bo is a kind of neo-Maoist and this does not fit the party main Denguist orientation. Xi Jinping has a grief against Maoism because his family fell from grace during some purges. There is no place for Maoism, neo-Maoism or anything similar in today's China as they believe that China must still develop its capitalist system in order to withstand US ambitions on the country. Most of the cadres are probably anti-Communist, they just keep the party for harmony and stability reasons.

[@TheRacistsMustDie]

No problem man, I also had to look it up first.

[@JoanaSnow17]

Before i thought the same as you, considerring him a good politician, not until the bad news came out. Any good leader can´t take away the organs from a living human body. So sad that every news from the C.Party is so horrible...

[@hgjyhgyhfgyjghfhfgyhjf4917]

You mean the capitalist party of china? Yes capitalism control today all the life of every people of the world and who try get away will be in prison or dead Ps: china is not communist more if it was communist how thousends women coming in european countries for be prostitute?

[@robertwallace6974]

bo xilai is a great leader and a real communist who inherits mao's great thought. he was calumniated by rhe right wing communist members and set up by spys and those reactionaries who hated him. he is a leader of the people instead of an elite capitalist or an American walking dog. people love him.

[@user-xd4rs6vr4n]

he was such a capitalist he killed Falun Gong practitioners just to steal their organs. Humans were mere objects to profit from for him.

[@darlington2870]

What a joke...British agents talking nice about their fellow agent

[@aircanada8022]

bo xilai is good looking lol

[@cdg6693]

Are you Asian?😄

[@WBCY2024]

EastWindBreaks better looking than Xi at least

[@CJinsoo]

Wait, he was/is admired for being a political hack? Okay, un-pause the video, proceed.

[@oO_ox_O]

they did several times

[@ooichiewseng5826]

一个名号，是怎么把人逼疯的 Yi ge ming how, shi zhe meh ba ren bi feng

[@GhostInTheShell29]

Most Americans are apathetic and don't vote.... So why would it matter if a majority disaprove? Only voters decide who wins, and Only dedicated voters involved in the primaries get to choose candidates. So of the 10% of the population that controls our democracy, some are pro Israel, and the people opposed to Israel aren't that passionate about it. I know tons of people pissed off at things the American government does. Nearly all of them aren't even registered to vote.

[@TheRacistsMustDie]

The U.K. was in Korea (but a lot of countries were).

[@da5families]

Sure thing troll.

[@yirenxindudu]

雷政富與文強的區別在於是否臣服薄熙來

[@Marcara081]

....that is to say you have no sense of your own existence?

[@elgs1980]

In a dictatorship regime, the correctness of a society relies on the correctness of the dictators. The dictators may do something right, and of course they can do things wrong, all depending on how the person is. So here's the problem, a person cannot always do all things right. So a better regime is for more important than a better leader. A better regime needs everybody in the society to act. China has a big step forward than other communist countries, as at least they have 7 or 9 leaders now.

[@wutangforever4744]

一派胡言 啊 一派胡言 我感到非常气愤

[@crystalyeowchingching1036]

你们有个免费海港啊！

[@grawk1]

Excellent report! TYT and WSJ... perhaps not such a bad partnership!

[@RANNDOMFORCE]

is this some sort of proxy troll?

[@FrankCastle-he8fl]

Never trust China

[@marxleninstalin]

people have to know that bo xilai was NOT an marxist or even an maoist. he used mao zedong thought as an pretext for continiouing deng xiao ping theory. so in fact he was a liar and a hypocrit!

[@antoinesilva1527]

That’s good, actually.

[@timothygent6716]

GoldenEye golden dragons 🐉