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Posted on 09/26/2013 4:31:05 PM PDT by edpc
CHENGDU, China—When the government of this southwestern city needed a landmark for a new district, billionaire developer Deng Hong picked up the land cheap five years ago and erected a building almost three times the size of the Pentagon. Nearby, Wu Bing paved a motorway, while Liu Han put up schools. He Yan wired a jail with information technology and Wang Junlin's winery funded government charities.
Now, over the past several months, all of those tycoons have disappeared from view. Their absences come amid an alleged corruption scandal that may broadside the economic vitality of this gateway to China's rugged west and indicate a fresh front in Chinese political infighting.
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Enemy activity in his old sector dropped off to nothing. Guess he must have hit the right [five] people.
Which will make for a dull ski season in China, I suppose....
How can you ski on them when they are varnished?
On the contrary, they bribed plenty of officials. Unfortunately for them, the ones they bribed were in the losing political faction.
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