For a time, Hanwell Snr made his own reluctance to sit appear quite natural, busying himself with the hot oil and dismissing certain chips as not fit to be thrown in the fryer ifhisonlyson was to eat them.
In between torture sessions, Mr. Gao's jailers showed him video of his young son crying from hunger and told him that onlyif he sang revolutionary paeans to the Communist Party would they allow his wife access to her bank account to buy food.
If George W. Bush follows his father to the presidency, becoming only the second son to pull off that trick (John Quincey Adams, son of John Adams, was the first), it could foreclose Jeb's own chance of entering the White House.