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

ed, and Iran's production capability has recovered. Iran became aware of the attacks in the summer of 2010, when the computer worm escaped from the Natanz plant and was replicated across the globe. The computer industry soon named the escaped weapon Stuxnet. Iran announced last year that it had begun

bercorps" that Iran's military created in 2011 — partly in response to American and Israeli cyberattacks on the Iranian nuclear enrichment plant at Natanz — though there is no hard evidence that the attacks were sanctioned by the Iranian government. The attacks emanating from Iran have inflicted only

s who dared to openly and persistently criticize President Xi Jinping's leadership." According to the Post, "X

Xu Zhangrun, silencing one of the last voices within China's besieged intellectual circles who dared to openly and persistently criticize President Xi Jinping's leadership." According to the Post, "Xu's arrest in Beijing's outskirts came five months after he published a lengthy essay pleading with politic

olitics." The New York Times (7/6, Buckley, 18.61M) reports Xu "came to wider prominence after publishing an essay in 2018 that, without naming Mr. Xi, condemned his government for stifling even the narrow space for debate that the party had previously tolerated." Uighurs Urge ICC To Take Action A

ted it was behind a massive fire at an Iranian nuclear site last week." To the AP, "If Israel was responsible for the fire at the heavily fortified Natanz facility, it would mark another in a series of daring strikes against Iran's nuclear program attributed to Israel, while also risking Iranian retali

ropean Union committed to steeper cuts. But China, India and Russia made no new emissions promises." The New York Post (4/22, Moore, 7.45M) reports Xi, "who didn't announce he would participate in the summit until Wednesday, claimed his country - one of the world's top polluters - will cut down on

he AP (4/22, Knickmeyer, Madhani) reports Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin "pu

sportation where I work, that job creation through climate action is the way forward." The AP (4/22, Knickmeyer, Madhani) reports Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin "put aside their raw-worded disputes" with Biden on Thursday "long enough to pledge international cooperation

) reports that a new IAEA report says Iran "has reduced the number of centrifuges enriching uranium to up to 60% purity at an above-ground plant at Natanz to one cluster from two." The announcement "complicated the current indirect talks with the United States on rescuing its nuclear deal with major p

d the Americans. This week, US Vice President Joe Biden is set to visit Beijing. This was initially intended to be a relaxed meeting with President Xi Jinping, whom Biden knows well. But instead Obama's deputy now has to consider some serious questions: Could the Far East actually stumble into a war? What

y intended to be a relaxed meeting with President Xi Jinping, whom Biden knows well. But instead Obam

initially intended to be a relaxed meeting with President Xi Jinping, whom Biden knows well. But instead Obam

egotiation have a long pedigree. They began in 2003, after the revelation that Iran had been secretly constructing a uranium-enrichment facility at Natanz and a heavy-water reactor at Arak. They have continued on and off in different permutations, with the Geneva negotiations the most recent and fulle