Epstein Secrets

egion then called Outer Manchuria. The southern part of this concession would become Russia's maritime province, Primorsky Krai, where the city of Vladivostok ("Ruler of the East") was chartered in 1880. The century that followed Moscow's "Amur annexation" introduced dramatic changes to Northeast Asia's p

terness did not—as Henry Kissinger would learn during his first meeting with Deng Xiaoping in 1974, when the topic of a U.S.-Soviet arms summit in Vladivostok prompted the future Chinese leader to lecture him on Russian rapacity. Considering this background, as well as China's unresolved boundary dispute

ublic in 1949. Beginning in the 1850s, Russians seized advantage of Chinese disarray to pressure the Qing's northern frontier, from restive Muslim Xinjiang in the west to the Amur River in the east. Two "unequal treaties" in 1858 and 1860 gave Russia more land than it had conceded to the Manchus two hu

ia to tap through Arctic ice. The target was a Russian cable four hundred feet below the surface that connected the Rus- @ sian naval headquarters in Vladivostok with a missile testing range. @ In 1980, President Ronald Reagan gave the NSA a clear mandate to expand its interception of foreign communications.

twelve independently targeted reentry vehicles, each simu- lating a nuclear warhead. Some forty-four hundred miles away, in China’s test range in the Xinjiang desert, each of the twelve simu- lated nuclear warheads hit its target within a twelve-inch radius. The test firing, which was closely monitored by

Okhotsk in Asia to tap through Arctic ice. The target was a Russian cable 400 feet below the surface that connected the Russian naval headquarters in Vladivostok with a missile testing range. In 1980, President Ronald Reagan, gave the NSA a clear mandate to expand its interception of foreign communications. I

e missile released 12 independently-targeted re-entry vehicles, each simulating a nuclear warhead. Some 4400 miles away, in China’s test range in the Xinjiang desert, each of the 12 simulated nuclear warheads then hit their targets within a 12 inch radius. The test firing, which was closely monitored by the