Breaking News - Chinese official booted after account of lurid affair emerges

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By Ed Flanagan, Producer, NBC NewsBEIJING — The rise of new Chinese leader Xi Jinping last November has not been good for mainland officials caught with their pants down.

In recent months, a slew of low-level Communist officials as well as a few high ranking ones —most notably the vice party chief of the southwestern province of Sichuan, Li Chuncheng — have been exposed by local media and dismissed from their positions after their intercourseual peccadilloes came to light.


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