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Party leaders may well decide this year that if new channels of information cannot be shut down, the popular fury they sometimes transmit must be steered toward what the government calls "international hostile forces".
This week, a Communist Party magazine, Seeking Truth, published an essay by President Hu Jintao in which Mr. Hu said "international hostile forces" were intensifying a plot of "Westernizing and dividing China" by dominating its culture.
China takes its anniversaries seriously, so perhaps it's no coincidence that Chinese leaders have opened 2012 with a warning: "We must clearly see that international hostile forces are intensifying the strategic plot of Westernizing and dividing China," president Hu Jintao wrote in an essay and speech.
"We must clearly see that international hostile forces are intensifying the strategic plot of Westernizing and dividing China, and ideological and cultural fields are the focal areas of their long-term infiltration," Mr. Hu said, according to a translation by The Associated Press.
"We must clearly see that international hostile forces are intensifying the strategic plot of westernising and dividing China, and ideological and cultural fields are the focal areas of their long-term infiltration," he wrote, somewhat dramatically, adding "the international culture of the west is strong while we are weak".
In 2012, then-President Hu Jintao wrote that "international hostile forces are intensifying the strategic plot of Westernizing and dividing China, and ideological and cultural fields are the focal areas of their long-term infiltration".
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"These actions generated significant international hostility towards the United States and fed a false international narrative that the United States was hostile to international justice," Bellinger wrote.
Another of Abu al-Khair's grave offences was "making international organisations hostile to the kingdom".
Whether classified as recruitment or abduction, taking children into the movement is a violation of a cease-fire agreement signed last February, which bars, in accordance with international law, hostile acts against civilians.
The justifications they offer include the need to support friendly regimes in an international climate hostile to Israel; the need to honor requests and aid the interests of the United States, Israel's chief ally, and the role arms sales can play in providing a form of life insurance for small, vulnerable Jewish communities in Third World states.
It strikes me that at the point where Frayn left for Geneva, speech in briefcase, to do battle with recalcitrant international flights, hostile luggage carousels and a supercilious academic audience, he had accepted the destiny of one of his protagonists: those farcical cousins of Sisyphus who seem doomed for a lifetime to roll big custard pies up a hill.
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