英媒：奥巴马要为习近平创造条件

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BBC Chinese, Feb 15, 2012.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/si ... _us_xijinping.shtml

Note: The report cites
Editorial: China and the US: the princeling and the professor. Barack Obama should strive to create conditions in which Xi Jinping, the presumed next leader of China, can play reformer.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commen ... i-jinping-editorial
("The first volume of Xi the elder's life was published without problems, but the second volume, covering the purge, has been shelved for three years, ever since the son's destiny became clear")

(i) The title in BBC Chinese is 要 (wants). On the contrary, the Guardian editorial says "should."  
(ii) Regarding "a bear trap for the fifth." I do not know its meaning. In the entire Web, its only use is in this editorial.
(iii) The editorial states, "If only China's collective leadership could have followed Churchill's advice to Stalin and Roosevelt." The link it provides leads to

Churchill: The Gathering Storm; Professor John Charmley discusses whether Churchill has rewritten the history books to portray himself as a foreign policy visionary during the time of Appeasement. BBC, Mar 30, 2011.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/wor ... ring_storm_01.shtml
("'History will judge us kindly', Churchill told Roosevelt and Stalin at the Tehran Conference in 1943; when asked how he could be so sure, he responded: 'because I shall write the history'. And so he did, in the six massive volumes of The Second World War. The first volume, The Gathering Storm, describes his opposition to the appeasement of Hitler during the 1930s, and provides the text for a BBC TV drama of the same name")

(2) 英媒：中美博弈寻求新国际秩序. BBC Chinese, Feb 15, 2012.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/si ... s_us_xi_visit.shtml

My comment:
(a) The report is based on

Leading article: Superpowers in Search of the Next World Order; From the sidelines, the view is of the US and China warily taking each other's measure. The Independent, Feb 15, 2012.
http://www.independent.co.uk/opi ... -order-6917426.html

Quote:

"The view from the sidelines is one of two great forces warily taking each other's measure: China moving clumsily and unpredictably, chafing at existing global rules, and the US moving cautiously and deliberately to redeploy its forces in anticipation of a new world order. The changes in US defence structures announced by Mr Obama last November were directed towards one end, and one end only: towards maximising the US position in the event that China becomes a more assertive, even aggressive, Pacific power sooner than at present envisaged.

(b) The Independent really does not say much. Read only the paragraphs 1 (not shown) and 7 (quoted above).

(3) 奥巴马对习近平称人民币仍被低估. BBC Chinese, Feb 15, 2012.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/si ... na_us_economy.shtml

(4) 习近平将重访爱荷华州小镇. BBC Chinese, Feb 14, 2012.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/si ... ijinping_iowa.shtml

(5) 美中高官谈人权，仅有交流无交集. VOA Chinese, Feb 15, 2012.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/n ... ghts-139352828.html