Bo Xilai, the disgraced Politburo member, will be tried for attempting to seize power in the latter half of this year, according to a source that spoke to New Epoch Weekly.

While the public eye is on new Party leader Xi Jinping’s moves during his first month in China’s top position, other less evident incidents in maintaining public security may point to changes of greater national importance.

Following a peaceful demonstration by over 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners on April 25, 1999, the then-head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Jiang Zemin, started the persecution of Falun Gong on July 20, 1999.

Scholars in China have questioned China’s U.S.$586 billion stimulus plan.