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China: AP: China’s Xi looking to party

US, North Korea must ‘hit brakes’ on threats congress to cement authority

By CHRIS BODEEN vent the emergence of an touched on North Korea. By CHRIS. BODEEN this year on the coast east
Associated Press ‘August crisis,’” Wang was Speaking to reporters after Associated Press of Beijing will be even tam-
BEIJING (AP) — China has quoted as saying in the viewing a Chinese military BEIJING (AP) — In a ritual er than usual, analysts say.
urged the United States Tuesday conversation. exercise outside the north- of summer, China’s leaders Xi, 64, has been shoring up
and North Korea to “hit The ministry quoted Lavrov eastern city of Shenyang, have been holding an un- his authority and sidelining
the brakes” on threatening as saying tensions could Dunford said he told Gen. official retreat at a beach rivals, leaving him primed
words and work toward a rise again with the U.S. and Fang Fenghui that the U.S. resort ahead of a key fall to install allies in top posi-
peaceful resolution of their South Korea set to launch hoped diplomatic and Communist Party congress tions and press his agenda
tense standoff created by large-scale military exercis- economic pressure would at which President Xi Jin- of tightened state control
Pyongyang’s recent mis- es on Aug. 21. convince North Korea to ping will launch his sec- and muscular diplomacy.
sile tests and threats to fire “A resolution of the North end its nuclear program, ond five-year term as party That appears to include a
them toward Guam. Korea nuclear issue by mili- but that it was also prepar- chief and move to cement push to insert his thoughts
The dispute has also raised tary force is completely un- ing military options. his status as China’s most on theoretical matters into
powerful leader in de- the party constitution and
cades.The absence of top further cultivate a bur-
leaders from state media geoning cult of personal-
reports is a general indica- ity that could allow him to
tion that the secretive Bei- hold on to power beyond
daihe retreat is underway. his second term.
In a hint that leaders have At the fall party congress,
gathered at the resort’s Xi is expected to deliver
quiet beaches and closely a keynote address as a
guarded guest houses, the prelude to having his take
official Xinhua News Agen- on theory written into the
cy last week carried an ac- party constitution during
count of a meeting at the the event, analysts believe.
resort between party pro- If indeed the case, the
paganda boss Liu Yunshan move’s significance would
and a group of vacation- be that predecessor Hu
ing technical experts. Jintao was able to insert his
The strength of Xi’s position theory only upon leaving
likely means the goings-on office.q

Indonesia president: Spread

wealth and protect diversity
U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford, left, shakes hands with Chinese
Northern Theater Command Commander Gen. Song Puxuan, right, following a meeting together
at Northern Theater Command Army Force Haichung Camp in Haichung, China, Wednesday, JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) Indonesia is the third larg-
Aug. 16, 2017. — Indonesia’s president on est democracy after In-
(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) Wednesday vowed a fairer dia and the U.S. and as
distribution of the nation’s a member of the Group
fears in South Korea, acceptable and the pen- “We hope for a peaceful wealth and a renewed of 20 major industrialized
where a conservative po- insula’s nuclear issue must resolution but we needed commitment to protect- and developing nations,
litical party on Wednesday be peacefully resolved by to seriously have a conver- ing diversity after volatile its economy is among the
called for the United States political and diplomatic sation about what might months in which the coun- biggest in the world. But it
to bring back tactical nu- methods,” Lavrov was happen if there was military try’s reputation for toler- has dramatic extremes of
clear weapons to the Ko- quoted as saying. action,” Dunford said. ance was undermined by wealth and poverty, grap-
rean Peninsula. In a sign of China is North Korea’s main Dunford earlier visited South religious tensions and at- pling with both childhood
growing concern on the economic partner and Korea and stops next in Ja- tacks on minorities. stunting from malnutrition
part of Pyongyang’s only political backer, although pan. His visit to Asia comes Joko “Jokowi” Widodo re- and a mounting health
major ally, Chinese Foreign relations between Beijing after President Donald peated familiar themes in care burden from obesity-
Minister Wang Yi said in a and Pyongyang have de- Trump last week declared his annual address to par- related diseases among
phone conversation with teriorated amid the North’s the U.S. military “locked and liament that comes a day the wealthier. About 11
his Russian counterpart, continuing defiance of loaded” and said he was before celebrations of the percent of the country of
Sergey Lavrov, that the China’s calls for restraint. In ready to unleash “fire and 72nd anniversary of In- more than 250 million peo-
two countries should work recent months, China has fury” if North Korea contin- donesia’s independence ple lives in extreme poverty
together to contain ten- joined with Russia in calling ued to threaten the United from Dutch colonial rule. and large numbers are just
sions and permit no one to for the U.S. to suspend an- States. North Korea’s mili- Jokowi, the first Indonesian above that poverty line.
“stir up an incident on their nual military drills with South tary on Tuesday presented president from outside the People in far-flung areas
doorstep,” according to a Korea in exchange for leader Kim Jong Un with ranks of the elite or military, of the archipelago such as
statement posted on the Pyongyang halting its mis- plans to launch missiles into said economic develop- the westernmost province
Chinese foreign ministry’s sile and nuclear tests as a waters near the U.S. territo- ment must be spread to all of Aceh, a region granted
website. “The most impor- first step toward direct talks. ry of Guam and “wring the corners of the world’s most substantial autonomy un-
tant task at hand is for the On Wednesday, the chair- windpipes of the Yankees,” populous Muslim-majority der a peace deal in 2004
U.S. and North Korea to ‘hit man of the U.S. Joint Chiefs even as both Koreas and nation. with separatists, should be
the brakes’ on their mutual of Staff, Marine Corps Gen. the United States signaled “Equitable development able to get the same stan-
needling of each other Joseph Dunford, continued their willingness to avert a will unite Indonesia. Fair dard of education, health
with words and actions, to a visit to China following deepening crisis, with each development will make us care and other services as
lower the temperature of talks the day before with his suggesting a path toward stronger in facing global their “brothers” around the
the tense situation and pre- Chinese counterpart that negotiations.q competition,” he said. country, Jokowi said.q