Epstein Secrets

ior Saud royals. But what may seem safe to them is dangerous for the country. Saudi Arabia these days is all too reminiscent of the dying decade of the Soviet Union, during which one decrepit leader succeeded another, from Leonid Brezhnev to Yuri Andropov to Konstantin Chernenko, before a younger and more open-

sense of an approaching moment of transition that will require a different set of conditions for Chinese officials to maintain airspeed," observed Orville Schell, the Asia Society China expert. The rules are going to get rewritten here. Exactly how and when is impossible to say. The only thing that is certai

an visitors were pleased by the post-1972 developments in US-China relations, seeing them as likely to be both a source of strategic leverage against the Soviet Union and a stabilizing influence in Asian affairs. The government in Beijing was seen as preoccupied with domestic affairs, no longer opposed to the prese

mplete— consensus of the Working Group Participants. This Working Group grew out of the Task Force on US-China Relations (chaired by Susan Shirk and Orville Schell}, and we thank the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Henry Luce Foundation for their support of the Task Force. Although the two efforts share

s moment in American political history, overstating the threat of subversion from China risks causing overreactions reminiscent of the Cold War with the Soviet Union, including an anti-Chinese version of the Red Scare that would put all ethnic Chinese under a cloud of suspicion. Right now, I believe the harm we co

. Jeffrey Phillips is the Policy Director at The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands. John Pomfret is a Washington Post journalist and author. Orville Schell is the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on US-China Relations at Asia Society. David Shambaugh is Gaston Sigur Professor of Asian Studies, Politic