Epstein Secrets

riety of political systems around the world. Each participant also has an abiding interest in protecting and strengthening democratic institutions in the United States and elsewhere in the world. While different participants took the lead in drafting particular sections of the report, each section was reviewed and c

1999); Robert Sutter, US-Chinese Relations: Perilous Past, Pragmatic Present (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2010); Nancy B. Tucker, Strait Talk: United States-Taiwan Relations and the Crisis with China (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009). 2 See website at http://www.china.org.cn/english/features

om newspaper executives indicate that China Section 6 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020542 84 Daily pays $250,000 for each insert in major US dailies. In 2009, the Global Times (48k AY#R), part of the People’s Daily group, started an English-language newspaper as well. Chinese investment in the US media market is not limite

he expansion of Chinese state-owned English-language media in the United States and Beijing’s increasing control of Chinese-language media outlets in the United States are very problematic for an open dialogue. For one, these media are under the Section 6 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020554 96 control of a foreign government

day life or teach American-style English to Chinese listeners. An example would be a program called Cultural Odyssey, a VOA TV series that focused on Americana, such as fried chicken, doughnuts, and national parks. For years, Cultural Odyssey ate up one-third of the Mandarin service’s travel budget. Another

al. It is difficult to pin down the precise origins of such narratives, but they closely resemble arguments made in the Chinese media, in particular the Global Times. Appendix 2 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020634 176 Omitted was the historical fact that Lee Kuan Yew was the only noncommunist leader who in the late 1950s a

onzi Scheme. Reuters (12/28) reports from Zurich, "Switzerland will return $150 million from blocked Swiss bank accounts by the end of the year to the United States to be given to victims of convicted Ponzi scheme con artist Robert Allen Stanford, the Federal Ministry of Justice said on Monday: Stanford, "a form

os report alleging a Chinese spy developed extensive ties with Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) is 'complete fiction."' An anonymous source reportedly told the Global Times the report was "completely fabricated to slander China, and urged the US media and relevant personnel to stop violating a Chinese citizen's reputati