>>> the only high-profile incident that has the u.s. concerned. and china's'o communist government on edge. q?! leadership is being shaken by a scandal that has uncovered corruption at the highest levels and perhaps even murder. nbc's chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell has more tonight.
>> reporter: it is a chinese power struggle that reads more like a tabloid sex and murder mystery . communist party bo xilai .
>> undoubtedly the largest political earthquake to hit the chinese leadership.
>> reporter: and his wife, suspected of arranging the murder of a british businessman neil haywood who worked with her husband and may have been her lover. haywood found dead at this hotel hotel. the british government is even being accused of letting china cover up the case.
>> we did offer to hold an investigation.
>> reporter: it is a stunning downfall for a power couple who traced their roots to the early leaders of the communist party .
>> the public started to question, well, if bo xilai who was a gang busting son of a revolutionary hero is this corrupt, what does it say about the rest of our top leadership.
>> reporter: adding to the scandal, the couple's son. educated at tony british schools, now at harvard's kennedy school . scandalizing the family with playboy lifestyle.
>> what seems unusual, or at least not the norm is the degree to which he flouted his privilege in perfectly observable ways.
>> reporter: corruption is widespread among chinese elites. but never talked about publicly. what may have sealed both fates is an even worse crime in the eyes of party leaders like the president. allegedly wiretapping their phones.
>> if half the allegations against the bo family, not just him but his wife as well, prove to be true, it would suggest that corruption goes right up to the top.
>> reporter: for the u.s., anything that threatens the success to china's next leader means trouble. so this is one scandal that the u.s. and china both wish would simply go away. andrea mitchell , nbc news, washington.
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