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WORLD NEWS Saturday 21 OctOber 2017

Make China Great Again! Xi leads China into muscular new era

By CHRIS BODEEN to “keep a low profile and
Associated Press bide one’s time, while also
BEIJING (AP) — In this sum- getting things done.”
mer’s “Wolf Warrior II,” Chi- That began to change af-
nese action star Wu Jing ter the last decade’s global
portrays a tough super- financial crisis, from which
patriot who rescues both China emerged relatively
fellow countrymen and op- unscathed, and the coun-
pressed Africans with help try’s foreign policy has
from the People’s Libera- since shifted into high gear
tion Army. under Xi.
Audiences loved what China has succeeded in
became China’s biggest- leveraging its booming
grossing movie ever. Some economy and mountain of
reportedly sang the na- foreign currency holdings
tional anthem as the movie to influence other nations
closed on an image of a and further its global am-
Chinese passport and the bitions. A key watershed
words, “Please remem- came this year, when the
ber, at your back stands a People’s Liberation Army
strong motherland.” began manning China’s
This red-blooded national- first overseas base in Dji-
ism has been channeled bouti, reversing decades
skillfully by President and In this Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017, photo, video showing Chinese President Xi Jinping handling an of rhetoric eschewing such
ruling Communist Party assault rifle is shown at an exhibition highlighting China’s achievements under five years of his facilities as imperialist Cold
leader Xi Jinping as he leadership at the Beijing Exhibition Hall in Beijing. Xi is channeling a red-blooded nationalism War holdovers.
seeks to strengthen the par- as he seeks to strengthen the Communist Party’s role in Chinese life and assert Beijing’s rise as a The overall goal seems
ty’s role in Chinese life and global superpower. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) clear: Restore China to
shepherd the country’s rise its traditional role as East
to prominence at a time year term as party secre- efforts in the South China ness to stand up for itself. Asia’s leading nation and a
when the United States and tary general, observers say. Sea, for instance. “No one should expect global economic and cul-
others in the West are seen “Xi’s on a roll,” said June In an address Wednesday China to swallow anything tural force.
to be in retreat. Teufel Dreyer, professor of to the congress’ opening that undermines its inter- Xi said as much in his open-
Xi’s muscular foreign pol- political science at the Uni- session, Xi reiterated that ests,” Xi told delegates at ing address on Wednesday
icy could become even versity of Miami. She pre- China pursues an “inde- Beijing’s hulking Great Hall when he outlined a vision of
more assertive following dicted he would continue pendent foreign policy of of the People. raising China’s internation-
this month’s congress of expanding China’s influ- peace” and maintains a For years, after its emer- al stature. By 2050, Xi said,
the ruling Communist Party, ence by gradually increas- defensive military posture. gence from hard-line Marx- China would be “a global
where delegates will agree ing pressure on other coun- However, he also warned ism in the late 1980s, China leader in terms of compos-
to support his policies and tries, a tactic seen in Bei- other countries not to un- stuck to reformist leader ite national strength and
endorse his second five- jing’s steady island-building derestimate China’s willing- Deng Xiaoping’s dictum international influence.”.q

Uganda expels North Korea military experts over UN sanctions

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA viduals, Okello Oryem, a The expulsion marks a pol- perialism. In 2014, Musev- evades sanctions imposed
Associated Press deputy minister of foreign icy shift for Uganda’s gov- eni hosted a state dinner in for its nuclear and ballistic
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — affairs, told The Associated ernment, which previously honor of North Korea’s cer- missile programs to coop-
Uganda has expelled North Press. “We are in full com- had warm relations with emonial leader, Kim Yong erate “on a large scale,”
Korean military experts and pliance,” Oryem said, add- Pyongyang. Nam, and said the North including military training
representatives of North ing that Uganda maintains North Korea for years Koreans are “friends who and construction, in coun-
Korean companies, includ- normal diplomatic ties with trained the Ugandan se- have helped Uganda for a tries from Angola to Ugan-
ing its top arms dealer, as North Korea. curity forces in physical fit- long time.” da. The report said North
African nations face grow- Uganda specifically de- ness, maritime warfare and But North Korea’s continu- Korea’s military was train-
ing pressure to comply with manded the exit of individ- weapons handling. ing nuclear tests have led ing Ugandan air force pilots
U.N. sanctions over Pyong- uals representing the Korea Ugandan President Yoweri to more sanctions and and technicians under a
yang’s nuclear weapons Mining Development Trad- Museveni, in power since greater pressure on coun- contract that would have
program. ing Corporation. It is North 1986, previously praised tries to enforce them. expired in March 2018.
Any North Koreans still in Korea’s primary arms deal- Pyongyang as an exemplar A report by U.N. experts Uganda was warned the
the East African nation are er and is under U.N. and of the fight against what he seen by the AP in March contract was in violation of
diplomats or private indi- U.S. sanctions. described as Western im- showed how Pyongyang sanctions, it said.q