Soon after the news report, Wang Lijun, the ex-police chief in Chongqing, received a 15 prison sentence.
During the trial, Wang Lijun confessed to all the charges against him, including defection, abuse of power, taking bribes and bending the law for personal gain. Of course he had to, because everything had been predetermined. In China, the trial to elite politics often kept closed unless everything like the prosecution and confession, had been decided.
Some rumors online said that Wang Lijun once talked to Bo Xilai about his wife Gu Kailai's murder of the Briton, Neil Heywood, but Bo Xilai slapped him and told him to mind his own business only, which was said to be the No.1 reason for Wang Lijun to defect.
This rumor, whatever it was really true or not, indicated a truth that in China, lower bureaucrats always were treated as slave-like servants to higher bureaucrats as masters. Why so? Because in such a dictatorship, every bureaucrat serves their senior chief rather than serving the people, and their career path is controlled by their senior chief, which results in this master-servant relationship.
Wang Lijun set a very good benchmark for lower bureaucrat in China, as even your boss treats you like a slave, they may not be satisfied and may probably want more. If you, as a slave-like lower bureaucrat, have a line, your boss may cross the line sooner or later. -- What are you going to do then? Just find a US embassy nearby.
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