WEN Jiabao's Family Accumulates $2.5 Billion: exposé

choi

David Barboza, Billions in Hidden Riches for Family of Chinese Leader. New York Times, Oct 26, 2012 (tentative title).
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/2 ... &pagewanted=all

My comment: The report is to be published tomorrow in print (see URL), but the draft, today ONLINE.

choi

(1) The print title of the report:

David Barboza, Billions Amassed in the Shadows by the Family of China's Premier; Manu relatives of Wen Jiabao, including his son, daughter, younger brother and brother-in-law, have become extraordinarily wealthy during his leadership. NYT, Oct 26, 2012 (front page and spanning more than two full pages).

Note:
(a) Wen's mother  YANG Zhiyun  

(i) 郑汉良, 纽约时报调查揭发温家宝一家财产至少27亿美元. RFI (Radio France International) 法广, Oct 26, 2012.
http://www.chinese.rfi.fr/%E6%94 ... F%E7%BE%8E%E5%85%83
("杨秀安（亦有报道指为杨秀兰，纽约时报的译名是杨芝云 [see (3) below)）")
(ii) The Chinese name for Taihong:

"他母亲在平安持有的股票被登记在一家名为泰鸿(Taihong)的控股公司名下，该公司注册地是总理的故乡天津."  See (3).
)
(b) wife ZHANG Beili  张 培莉
(c) brother WEN Jiahong  温 家宏
(d) wife's brother  ZHANG Jianming  张 剑鸣 (see (3))
(e) son WEN Yunsong (also known as Winston WEN)  温 云松
(f) daughter WEN Ruchun  溫 如春


(2) Keith Bradsher, China Blocks Web Access to Times After Article. page A12
(paragraph 1: "The Chinese governmentswiftly blocked access early Friday morning [Oct 26] to the Chinese-language Web site of Ther New York Times from computers in mainland China and gradually halted access to the English-language site as well")

(3)
(a) The top report in the Chinese-language website of New York Times (
cn.nytimes.com
):

David Barboza, 总理家人隐秘的财富; 温家宝的多名亲属在他任内暴富. Oct 26, 2012
http://cn.nytimes.com/article/china/2012/10/26/c26princeling/
(b) Keith Bradsher, 《纽约时报》网站在中国大陆遭屏蔽. Oct 26, 2012.
http://cn.nytimes.com/article/china/2012/10/26/c26block/

choi

Latest first. All five reports in this particular posting is from BBC Chinese, Oct 26, 2012.

(1) '温家宝难以化解外媒引发的公关危机.'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/si ... _gaoyu_on_wen.shtml

Quote:

"利用外媒曝光近来海外华文媒体和英美主流频频爆料报道中共高层的丑闻和权力斗争，许多人认为中共高层已经把向海外媒体爆料当作内部斗争的手段。

"高瑜认为《纽约时报》报道中国高层贪腐可以被看作是中共18大召开前高层斗争激烈化的迹象。

(2) 中国网友突破屏蔽评论温家人聚财.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/si ... ibo_wenjiabao.shtml
("记者先后登录了中国的几大门户网站例如搜狐、新浪、腾讯和网易。在用温家宝、影帝、纽约时报等相关词汇搜索时，被告知，根据相关法律法规，搜索结果未予显示。但当记者用'27亿'搜索时，找到了在腾讯网站上的一些网友用隐晦揶揄的语言发表的微博评论")

(3) '中国资金非法外流情况日益严重.'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/si ... money_outflow.shtml
("美国的一个研究机构称，中国去年资金非法外流总额高达6000亿美元，而且数额还在持续增加中。'全球金融道德（Global Financial Integrity ）'的研究报告")

(4) 中国谴责《纽约时报》报道'抹黑.'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/si ... hina_reaction.shtml
("中国外交部发言人洪磊星期五（10月26日）在北京的一次新闻发布会上说，某些报道抹黑中国，有着不可告人的目的")

(5) 薄熙来被罢免人大代表资格
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/si ... china_boxilai.shtml
("据香港媒体报道，薄熙来家人聘请的律师李肖霖表示，薄熙来被取消人大代表资格对案件审理没有太大影响")

choi

披露温家宝家族暴富 《纽时》被中国封杀. VOA Chinese, Oct 26, 2012
http://www.voachinese.com/conten ... 121026/1533784.html
("在香港的中国互联网观察人士温云超说，《纽约时报》的文章发表大约三个小时后其网站就被封杀，而中国当局网管部门屏蔽英文网站的现象并不多见，这显示当局对相关议题高度敏感")

My comment:
(a) Regarding the quotation. Of course we all know it is unusual.
(b) There is no need to read the rest of the report.

choi

An update--just published minutes ago.

纽时曝温总家族财富，鲍彤吁温总出面澄清. VOA Chinese, Oct 26, 2012
http://www.voachinese.com/conten ... 121026/1534052.html
(温家宝妻子：张培莉？张蓓莉？; "温家宝女儿女婿置身事外？[:] 报道在一开始提到了温家宝的女儿温如春，但最后并没有交代温如春和丈夫刘春航到底拥有多少资产，甚至根本没有提到他们的名字。香港苹果日报（2010/7/18）报道，刘春航，40岁，是中国银监委统计部主任兼研究局负责人。他是温如春在哈佛大学读书时的同学")