中欲取代美国 + 北京通知拆习政治宣传

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(1)
(a) Elizabeth Economy, Xi's assertive Superpower Plans; As the US retreats, Beijing is talking more boldly about how it wants to change the international order and assert its own values and interests. Wall Street Journal, July 21, 2018
https://www.wsj.com/articles/mr-xis-superpower-plans-1532013258

Quote:

"AS A REGULAR VISITOR to China, I was surprised earlier this year when I heard for the first time a Chinese official refer to his country as a superpower (chaoji dagu). But China's view of its place in the international order is changing quickly. In a little-noticed speech last month, before a packed house of China's senior foreign policy officials and scholars, President Xi Jinping put the world on notice: China has its own ideas about how the world should be run and is prepared, as he put it, to 'lead in the reform of global governance.'

"As an attendee last week at a major foreign policy conference in Beijing, I heard some Chinese officials call for more assertive leadership, but other suggest that the country has been too ambitious and aggressive and is losing international support as a result.  Yet this emerging debate within China may have little impact. As president Donald Trump raises doubts about the US commitment to global leadership -- withdrawing from an ever-increasing number of international agreements and multilateral arrangements-- there may be no other choice. Only Xi jinping appears willing and able to grab the mantle of leadership from a retreating United States. In President Trump's cultivation of an 'America First' agenda, he may well be planting the seeds for a 'China First' world.

My comment:
(i) The quotations are part of paragraph 1 as well as the last paragraph. There is no need to read the content in between, because it is not new.
(ii) WSJ introduces the author at the end: "Ms Economy is the director for Asia studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Her new book is 'The Third Revolution; Xi Jinping and the new Chinese state,' published by Oxford University Press" on May 3, 2018.
(b) Jamie Tarabay, CIA official: China Wants to Replace US as World Superpower. CNN, July 21, 2018
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/20/p ... nfluence/index.html

the first two paragraphs:

"The goal of China's influence operations around the world is to replace the United States as the world's leading superpower, the CIA's Michael Collins said Friday.

"Speaking at the Aspen Security Forum during a session on the rise of China, Collins, the deputy assistant director of the CIA's East Asia Mission Center, said Chinese President Xi Jinping and his regime are waging a 'cold war' against the US.

Note:
(i) The ninth or 2018 Aspen Security Forum is held July 18-21, 2018. About ASF, undated
https://aspensecurityforum.org/about/
("Aspen Institute’s Homeland Security Program presents the ninth annual Aspen Security Forum * * * Each summer, the key homeland and national security issues of the day are explored in detail during three days of in-depth discussion by: Top level present and former government officials from all relevant agencies such as the Departments of Homeland Security, Defense, State, Justice, and the Treasury; [ii] Industry leaders * * * [iii] Thought leaders * * * [and iv] Nationally noted print and broadcast journalists"
(ii) Aspen Institute
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspen_Institute
(1949- ; a think tank; is headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, and has campuses in Aspen, Colorado (its original home) and near the shores of the Chesapeake Bay at the Wye River in Maryland)


(2) 刘少风, 官方文件爆北京限期拆政治广告 降温原因仍不清晰. RFA, July 21, 2018 (photo of the order)
https://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/propaganda-07212018093723.html

two consecutive paragraphs:

"北京顺义国资重点企业天竺空港经济开发区上周转发的文件内容显示，顺义区宣传部根据北京市委的命令，正撤除辖区内涉及十九大和众多与习近平有关的政治宣传广告。

"根据顺义区委宣传部发布的《通知》，北京官方这次撤政治广告的决定早于上月5日；宣传部不但列举多达十五种的政治口号，要在本周五（20日）前拆除，更附上大批需要拆除的政治宣传广告的图样。