But the police, prosecutors, courts and intelligence services are overseen by fellow Standing Committee member Zhou Yongkang, said by some party insiders to have a more sympathetic view of Mr. Bo.
As a result of media reforms introduced by Hu and Politburo Standing Committee member Li Changchun earlier this year, instructions have already been given to provinces and cities to stop interfering with efforts by media units under their jurisdictions to cover "negative" news and phenomena such as industrial and mining accidents.
Also, travels by internal security chief and Politburo Standing Committee member Zhou Yongkang have been seen as indicating efforts of a conservative bloc in the party leadership from the security, military, and propaganda sectors to assert itself in PRC foreign policy, an interpretation that may aid in explaining the uneven but persistent evidence of hard-line trends in that arena over the past year and a half.
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And Mr Wen is neither maverick nor powerless figurehead he is a senior member of the party's supreme body, the Politburo's nine-member standing committee.
These rule the provinces much as the nine-member Politburo standing committee in Beijing rules China as a whole.
Does someone from host city A have a long-standing friendship with a site selection committee member for event B, and if so, is that relationship strong enough to usurp the economic, financial, and logistical considerations raised above?
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At the hearing, the spectator gallery was standing room only, but Specter and fellow committee member Sen.
The Financial Times (which belongs to Pearson, part-owner of this newspaper) reported an impossible-to-refute account that Zhou Yongkang, a member of the elite Politburo standing committee, had been privately stripped of his powers for lobbying too forcefully on behalf of Mr Bo.
Mr Richardson was described by one member of the joint committee of standing "naked on this issue".
He is also the youngest member of the Politburo's supreme standing committee.
Professor David Harper, Member of the IHP National Committee, presented his long-standing IHP Ecohydrology work on Lake Naivasha basin in Kenya.
She's a member of the Senate Banking Committee , and that has hurt her standing back home when they're talking about the bailout, not the rescue plan but the bailout.
Mr Bo is a Politburo member who is thought to be a strong contender for elevation next year to its standing committee, the party's supreme body.
Some speculate that it is part of a bid by Mr Bo, who is a Politburo member, to whip up popular support for his promotion to the Politburo's all-powerful Standing Committee in 2012.
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