When Bo Xilai was sent to the steaming metropolis of Chongqing to be its Communist party secretary in 2007, many people believed he had effectively been neutralised by his political enemies.
Before landing in this relative backwater in southwestern China, Mr Bo was commerce minister and seen as a serious contender for elevation to the standing committee of the Communist party politburo, the highest decision-making body in the land.
He was passed over for this role in 2007 as the handful of competing power brokers and party elders at the top of the system cut deals and traded acolytes into plum positions.
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