Epstein Secrets

but they never quite step up to the task of jointly solving problems. It seems they prefer to let things fester rather than take decisive action. Henry Kissinger argues in his new book, "On China," that the Chinese are culturally unfamiliar with the experience of being allies. Other nations were regarded chi

tribute payments to the Middle Kingdom, and China didn't even have a foreign ministry EFTA_R1_02029354 EFTA02689729 22 until the 19th century, Kissinger says. The Obama administration may be asking for a kind of cooperation that China does not yet know how to give. The same partnership deficit has

drawal total and end dates could change somewhat. No one, not even Obama's most intimate national-security aides—Tom Donilon, Denis McDonough, and Ben Rhodes—can be certain of their boss' final calculations, but key officials feel confident that the president's secret thinking will generally hold. Sorti

s much more horrible that a human being should be violated against his will than that a violent attacker should be killed by his intended victim." HENRY KISSINGER responded to the massacre of the children with a hissing reiteration of his contempt for humane intentions in foreign policy. American action again

y popular uprising against any non-democratic government, including those heretofore considered important in sustaining the international system?" Kissinger does not explain why the Assad regime is a Westphalian necessity, when there is no longer any EFTA_R1_02204197 EFTA02720668 equilibrium in Syria

like to leave." VII E FTA_R1_02204189 EFTA02720660 After I talked with Plouffe, I wandered down to the basement of the White House to meet with Ben Rhodes, Obama's deputy national-security adviser. That day, Obama was meeting with Francois Hollande, the new French President; the building was filled w

s." Obama may resist the idealism of a previous generation of interventionists, but his realism, if that's what it is, diverges from the realism of Henry Kissinger or Brent Scowcroft. "It comes from the idea that change is organic and change comes to countries in its own way, modernization comes in its own way

s what it is, diverges from the realism of Henry Kissinger or Brent Scowcroft. "It comes from the idea that

an XXL France or Germany." Obama's "long game" on foreign policy calls for traditional categories of American power and ideology to be reordered. Ben Rhodes, the deputy national-security adviser for strategic communications, told me that Washington was "trapped in very stale narratives." "In the foreig

y much welcome the strong stance that Turkey has taken and believe it sends a critical message to President Assad that ... he should step down," said Ben Rhodes, Barack Obama's deputy national security adviser. In a series of statements, Davutoglu has insisted it is "no longer possible to trust the Syrian gov

long-term global strategy. Must the US, as Henry Kissinger suggests in his latest book On China, consider th

n Iran's nuclear ambitions. But it is in Asia that history is unfolding - and where the US must define its long-term global strategy. Must the US, as Henry Kissinger suggests in his latest book On China, consider the prospect of a "Pacific Community" that, unlike the Cold War-era Atlantic Community, is not based o