For hours, China’s micro-blogging community was abuzz with anxious tweets: an important announcement would be released at 6:30 or 7 p.m. on the official China Central Television (CCTV).

For hours, China’s micro-blogging community was abuzz with anxious tweets: an important announcement would be released at 6:30 or 7 p.m. on the official China Central Television (CCTV).

For hours, China’s micro-blogging community was abuzz with anxious tweets: an important announcement would be released at 6:30 or 7 p.m. on the official China Central Television (CCTV).

As the drama surrounding one of the Chinese Communist Party’s most powerful leaders, Bo Xilai, unfolds with all the twists of a soap opera, attention has now focused on his wife, Gu Kailai, the woman likened to the “Jackie Kennedy of China” and now at …