A wedding banquet was held in Hsinchu County on Saturday evening for Bo Guagua (薄瓜瓜), one of the sons of former prominent Chinese Communist Party (CCP) figure Bo Xilai (薄熙來), and his Taiwanese wife.
Bo Guagua married the granddaughter of Luodong Poh-Ai Hospital founder Hsu Wen-cheng (許文政).
Sources said no Taiwanese politicians were invited in a bid to avoid politicizing the event.
Photo: Liao Hsueh-ju, Taipei Times
Local police did not disclose whether they had dispatched police to the venue. One police officer said that some police stations in the area had dispatched additional personnel, but it was uncertain whether they were stationed at the wedding banquet.
Bo Guagua arrived in Taiwan in mid-November after his application to travel to Taiwan as a Chinese national was approved, the Mainland Affairs Council and local reports said.
Bo Xilai was the CCP chief of Chongqing in southwestern China and a member of the powerful politburo before he was engulfed in the Wang Lijun (王立軍) incident.
Wang was the vice mayor of Chongqing, who sought asylum in the US consulate in the city of Chengdu. He claimed to have information about the involvement of Bo Xilai’s wife in the murder of a British businessman.
In September 2012, Bo Xilai was removed from all party and public positions. The following year, he was tried and found guilty of corruption and abuse of power, for which he received a life sentence.
At the time, Bo Guagua was studying abroad and avoided the legal troubles his parents were facing in China.
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