Epstein Secrets

l in 2012 that Mr Obama's first itinerary should comprise three of China's neighbours. Mr Obama has important business at the East Asia Summit in Cambodia and in gently helping the tide of democracy in Myanmar — both notable stopovers before Thanksgiving. As indeed is his visit to a politically shaky

ghanistan, Mr Obama's big first-term goal was to close the military accounts in the Muslim world so that the US could refocus its attention on the Asia-Pacific region. The US troop presence in Afghanistan concludes in 2014. But the scaling down there and in Iraq has already freed up resources to go east.

ades, the duty to intervene—especially to stop or prevent genocide—has been woven into the international judicial culture. In 1978, Vietnam invaded Cambodia to overthrow the Khmer Rouge regime and stop genocide. A few months later, the Tanzanian army moved into Uganda to evict Idi Amin and stop the mas

uries, Asian nations spent more on military force than European countries. If the US is going to devote more of a declining military budget towards Asia-Pacific, Uncle Sam's presence in Europe and the Middle East must clearly diminish. Perhaps it doesn't matter? The threat of a land invasion of continental

maintains a robust, if under-the-radar, relationship with Taiwan. It has strong ties to Vietnam and it has attempted to modify China’s influence over Cambodia and Laos, although to little effect. Japan has a close relationship with New Delhi that involves not simply trade but also security. Japan and India

all the more concerning when Chinese influence is less easy to trace. It is impossible to tell, for example, if Huawei’s donation to Chatham House’s Asia-Pacific program will affect this venerable institution’s independence and if UK universities’ self censorship on their Chinese campuses will bleed into their