(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/121026-wen-jiabao-2-140a.photoblog600.jpg)China Daily via Reuters, fileChinese Premier Wen Jiabao shakes hands with local workers in earthquake-hit Mianzhu, Sichuan province in this Jan. 25, 2009 file photo. By Ed Flanagan, NBC NewsBEIJING – When news broke earlier this year that the family of disgraced Chongqing party boss, Bo Xilai, had amassed $160 million (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/24/world/asia/bo-xilais-relatives-wealth-is-under-scrutiny.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0) in ill-gotten earnings, the story was seen as a proverbial pin in the balloon China’s ruling Communist Party has long floated to its people about its leadership.
Follow @NBCNewsWorld (http://twitter.com/NBCNewsWorld) In China the storyline went something like this: local-level officials could be and have been corrupted. But China’s highest leaders were incorruptible, pious men who were sympathetic to the plight of the country’s citizenry.
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