Bo Guagua, son of jailed Chinese official Bo Xilai, appears in public at New York book signing

Bo Guagua, the younger son of disgraced former Chongqing party chief Bo Xilai, has made his first public appearance since his disgraced father was jailed for life two years ago.

The third-year student at Columbia Law School, in New York, attended a book signing event in the city on Tuesday, the Voice of America reported.

He bought a copy of The China Challenge: Shaping the Choices of a Rising Power by Thomas J. Christensen, former US deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, and asked the author to sign the book.

Bo, 27, also talked to Steve Orlins, head of the National Committee on United States-China Relations.

He appeared to be “natural and relaxed” at the event, the report said.

Bo declined to give media interviews but agreed to pose for photographs.