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Several times over the past year, Xinhua made fun of Song Zuying (AIS.^), a famous singer of Chinese folk songs. It is widely known to the Chinese people that Song, though married, is Jiang Zemin's mistress. When Jiang had power, defaming Song in any Chinese media, not to mention the official media Xinhua, was unimaginable. It never happened, even when Hu Jintao was the head of China.
A recent Xinhua Blog wrote about the relationship between Song Zuying and the Chinese actor Zhao Benshan (^A ill )* It is rumored that Bo Xilai chose Zhao to be his Minister of the Ministry of Culture after Bo's coup to overthrow Xi Jinping. The blog said that Song and Zhao are like brother and sister and they...