An article published on a local Web portal the same year in Chongqing, Southwest China, where his father had served as the Party chief, even related Guagua's academic experience to the core values of socialism and said he could present China's voice in the international community. Despite the gossip, Guagua received compliments from some Harrow teachers, who said that he was polite and had worked hard and not received any demerit points, unlike other students.
But on the other side of the equation, rumors arose saying that Guagua was expelled from Oxford because he failed exams. But he said he was taking advantage of a gap year to do his dissertation. In an e-mail from Andrew Graham, former master of Balliol College at Oxford to the magazine, Graham said that Guagua was not expelled, but he was required to be out of residence for one year following the normal processes in which the academic progress of all students is monitored.
On his return, he achieved a very creditable result in the final exams," said Graham. While Guagua was still a student, his half-brother, Li Wangzhi who is the son of Bo Xilai and his ex-wife and is 10 years older than Guagua, opened a company after Li obtained a master degree from Columbia University. Bogu believed Bo's family showed favoritism to the older son, according to a confidential source, who noted that Bogu's personality changed a lot after she gave up her lawyer's job.
Bogu even suspected that Li had attempted to poison her and in made enquiries about it to Wang Lijun, then the head of public security bureau in Tieling, Liaoning Province. Bo Xilai later claimed in the court that he was furious at Li, because of claims by Wang and Bogu that Li had poisoned Bogu.
He then distanced himself from Li, but later regretted this as it turned out Li had been wronged. The court verdict claimed that Bogu had mental disorders. The disorder finally led her to more aggressive actions. After Heywood made threats through e-mail to Guagua several times, asking for compensation regarding an economic dispute with Bogu, she orchestrated the murder of Heywood in Chongqing in November, , which was revealed by Wang when he asked for political asylum in the US Consulate General in Chengdu, causing a dramatic stir in Chinese politics.
Guagua was once asked that if his parents fell into the sea, which one would he save? Bo Guagua was during the time of their dispute studied in England, where Heywood was stated to be his local guardian. While the murder was concealed as death due to excessive drinking of alcohol by Heywood, it came to light after the Police Chief of Chongqing Wang Lijjun defected to US Consulate in Chengdu after slapped by Bo for investigating Gu's involvement in the murder.
Wang was sentenced to 15 years for defection and various other charges. The day golf won over the Indian sports fans. Old Arctic sea ice blown into melt zone by winter winds. NASA's Mars rover foiled in first attempt to grab rock. DH Toon Casteism: India's worst open secret. He has rejected the playboy label in various press statements, even claiming in one interview with a Chinese newspaper that he lived in a north Oxford 'slum area' while studying politics, philosophy and economics at Balliol College.
My own student newspaper at Oxford had a keen interest in the Chinese boy wonder and made him a regular feature of its gossip column, splashing again and again on his escalating largesse. His charisma and seemingly fathomless pockets even led to the coinage of a new verb at Oxford, 'to Guagua', meaning 'to seize power through smooth pleasantries, overwhelming financial might and the uncertain knowledge of what will happen to your family if you fail to please'.
It was a relationship that landed the then-undergraduate in hot water with his tutors and saw him suspended from the University for not working hard enough. The outlook is bleak: stranded abroad and hounded by the media, his parents are in jail and Beijing has sent warning that they would like him to join them. Ostensibly his connection to the family corruption is the hook China will use to attempt to drag Guagua back to the mainland.
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