How a Ferrari Altered the Chinese Leadership Succession
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The ploy was one of many in a tangled effort to suppress news of the Ferrari crash that killed [the son of a key aide to China's President Hu Gintao], Ling Gu and critically injured two young female passengers, one of whom later died. The outlines of the affair surfaced months ago, but it is now becoming clearer that the crash and the botched cover-up had more momentous consequences, altering the course of the Chinese Communist Party’s once-in-a-decade leadership succession last month.
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Perhaps Mr. Ling was attempting to resolve one of China's more thorny internal problems by his choice of escorts -- they were Tibetan.