Epstein Secrets

e last few months are only dress rehearsals for the far more consequential difficulties that will face the incoming leadership of president-"elect" Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang. Over the next decade, China will have to grapple with a number of structural dilemmas, and the potential solutions go well

l solutions go well beyond the current reforms. Whether the new leadership is up to the task remains an open question, but no one can deny that Mr. Xi will enter office next year with a very full plate. Islands of Instability In 1831, the underwater volcano Empedocles erupted off the coast of Sic

dress rehearsals for the far more consequential difficulties that will face the incoming leadership of president-"elect" Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang. Over the next decade, China will have to grapple with a number of structural dilemmas, and the potential solutions go well beyond the current refo

the first time since the death of Mao Zedong in 1976, =hina's most important reins of power have been handed over at the same t=me to a single man: Xi linping (pictured, centre, above). The decision, re=ealed on November 15th, that Hu Jintao has stepped down not only as the Co=munist Party's genera

ding Committee, the party's ruling body, bears Mr Jiang's imprint. Mr =i and the man expected to succeed Wen Jiabao as prime minister next March,=Li Keqiang, are the only two left from the outgoing committee, which has b=en reduced from nine members to seven. Of the five newcomers, all but one =re consid

e Chinese government. He spoke at the launch ceremony of President Xi Jinping’s book, The Governance of China; he provided live commentary on CNN for Xi’s policy address during his U.S. state visit (2015); and he introduced to foreign audiences Xi as “core” of the CPC (2016). He is interviewed extensi

se government. He spoke at the launch ceremony of President Xi Jinping’s book, The Governance of China; he provi

Lawrence Kuhn — March 5, 2018 HOST: You were there at the Great Hall of the People. What was your main takeaway from what some have described as Li Keqiang’s impossible challenge: how to deleverage, how to take away stimulus, and still keep 6.5% growth? RLK: I don’t take the 6.5% growth as the primary o

e vision, strategies and policies that will shape China. This remains true today, but less true today. It is hard to overstate the signifi- cance of Xi Jinping’s name written into the Party Constitution. Xi is now, officially, the originating designator and overarching arbiter of “Thought” as it relates to “So