Jul 27, 2012 07:51 PM

Why Hefei?

By Donald Clarke

China's official news agency announced yesterday that Gu Kailai (it calls her Bogu Kailai, but that's another story), the wife of ousted Chongqing Party secretary Bo Xilai, had been formally charged with murder by the Hefei Municipal Procuratorate in Anhui Province and would face trial in the Hefei Intermediate People's Court. Wait a minute. Hefei?

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