Beijing on edge amid coup rumours

[MindMover]

Last edited Fri Mar 23, 2012, 09:18 PM - Edit history (1)

The Chinese capital is awash with speculation, innuendo and rumours of a coup following the most important political purge in decades, with even some of the most well-informed officials in the dark about what comes next.

Since Bo Xilai, one of China’s most powerful leaders, was removed from his job last Thursday, the bureaucracy and the public have been on tenterhooks, awaiting the next twist in the gripping political saga

Besides a one-line statement on Mr Bo’s dismissal published late last week, China’s heavily censored media have not mentioned his name, let alone provided any clues about what will happen to him.

But the country’s netizens, in particular those using hard-to-censor Twitter-like microblogs, have been flooding the internet with information ranging from highly implausible to apparently authentic.

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/650bb0f6-735f-11e1-aab3-00144feab49a.html

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Lots of intrigue if Jon Huntsman is involved.......?......



The Great Rumor Mill of China...... http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/03/22/the_great_china_rumor_mill

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Oh cool, that be major if half way true

[MindMover]

2. Is the rumor true that the Mujahideen are the forefathers of the Taliban.....???

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Actually that is not a rumor

The talibán do come from the Mujahadeen. You might want to read on the subject.

This looks more like a good old fashioned internal cleanup and one faction lost.

[MindMover]

4. Is there any truth to the accusation that

the former US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski was a founder-member of the Afghan Mujahideen, forefathers of the Taliban.....as referred to in this piece.....

http://www.zcommunications.org/capitalism-a-ghost-story-by-arundhati-roy

[tabasco]

5. Could be!

http://www.legitgov.org/Reagan-calls-Taliban-moral-equivalent-Americas-founding-fathers

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. Would not quite put it that way

But blowback defininetly. We supported the mujahideen during the 1980s and Zbigniew, as National Security, pushed for the Grand Central Asian Game, pulling the Soviets into their own version of Vietnam. There is a reason why the whole mess is ironic and tragic at the same time.