China declines comment on marriage of son of jailed official Bo Xilai

BEIJING — 

China declined connected Wednesday to remark astir the matrimony of the lad of jailed erstwhile person Bo Xilai to an idiosyncratic from Taiwan, saying lone that it opposed "malicious" speculation astir the matter.

Public treatment is taboo successful the lawsuit of Bo, erstwhile considered a contender for apical enactment but jailed for beingness successful 2013, and the contented of his son's matrimony is made adjacent much delicate by the mediocre authorities of China's ties with Taiwan.

Asked astir the wedding astatine a regular quality briefing successful Beijing, Chen Binhua, a spokesperson for China's Taiwan Affairs Office, said helium could not comment.

But helium added the authorities "was opposed to maliciously hyping it up."

Pressed by a newsman connected further questions astir the son, Bo Guagua, Chen said helium had thing much to accidental astir "that marriage."

The begetter was recovered blameworthy of corruption and maltreatment of powerfulness successful a melodramatic autumn from grace linked to the sidesplitting of British businessman Neil Heywood. The parent was recovered blameworthy of murdering Heywood and is besides successful jailhouse successful China.

Last week, Taiwan's authorities said Bo Guagua was visiting the democratically governed island, which China claims arsenic its own, though Taipei rejects the sovereignty claims, pursuing his matrimony to a Taiwanese citizen.

Reuters has not been capable to interaction the Oxford- and Harvard-educated Bo Guagua for comment. He has lived extracurricular China and kept a debased illustration since his parents were jailed. It is not known if helium has returned to China during that time.

Reuters has besides not capable to corroborate whom helium had married.

Wednesday's quality league was carried unrecorded online by authorities media, but the authoritative transcript omitted the question astir Bo Guagua.