David Frum   China's Well-Greased Kangaroo Courts  The Financial
Times's Jamil Anderlini describes today's sentencing of Wang
Lijun, a former Chinese Communist party insider now immersed in
a web of intrigue, as "a hasty process that had all the
trappings of a show trial."  Wang, a flamboyant fantasist who
bragged about killing criminal suspects and claimed to have
talked his way out of execution by the Italian mafia, was
portrayed at his trial as a relatively clean public servant who
had just made bad choices. To most Chinese legal analysts, the
circumstances and sentences in the Gu and Wang trials make clear
that the entire process is part of a political show that will
culminate in the carefully scripted eventual sentencing of Mr Bo
himself.  “The leadership are in the midst of a political
faction fight. The entire legitimacy of the system is
crumbling,” says Pu Zhiqiang, a high-profile legal activist who
regularly defends political prisoners in China. “I would call
these trials a cover-up of the truth, rat