Epstein Secrets

llenge is best summed up in a telling anecdote from Decision Points, the memoir of President George W. Bush, who recounted asking Chinese president Hu Jintao "what keeps him awake at night." The Communist Party chairman did not need to think very hard. "Creating 25 million jobs a year," he replied. If C

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

f 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 general secretary, but also as head of China's army, wa= part of the biggest shake-up of the part

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

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

W YORK TIMES « Need to consolidate power. Xi was not selected by Deng Xiaoping, the archi- tect of reform, as were his predecessors (Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao), and he was not elected by the people. Conven- tional wisdom had it that Xi would be a weak leader. In order to realize his Chinese Dream, Xi needs