The irony of the purging of Bo Xilai, the brash and charismatic Communist party chief of Chongqing, is that he may have been the most popular politician in China. When asked last year what they thought of Mr Bo, a group of middle-aged women from a housing estate in the central Chinese city emphatically thrust their thumbs up in unison. “Bo Xilai is great,” they said. “We love Bo Xilai.”
爲人自負卻頗富個人魅力的中國重慶市委書記薄熙來被免職。這件事的諷刺之處在於，在它發生之前，薄熙來或許是中國人氣最高的官員。去年，重慶市一個居民小區裏的一羣中年婦女在被問到如何看待薄熙來時，齊齊翹起了大拇指。「薄熙來很棒，」她們說，「我們都愛薄熙來。」
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