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Lucy Sweeney and Rebecca Armitage 

As Xi Jinping made a bid for power, his charismatic rival Bo Xilai loomed. Then came a murder in a hotel room

It was early 2012 and for the ambitious men of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), possibility was in the air. 

After a decade under Hu Jintao as president and Wen Jiabao as premier, it was time for a changing of the guard.

Due to term limits and a mandatory retirement age of 68, both men were preparing to stand down. 

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