Epstein Secrets

economic slowdown has begun to emerge. By creating nationalism and then ignoring it, leaders in Beijing open themselves up to charges of weakness. Mao and Deng, secure in their own command, could brush it off, but Beijing's new technocrats are far less secure within China's immature civil-military

Since Deng Xiaoping's opening up and reform, the Chinese government and people have been consumed with two missions, undoing the damage wrought by Mao Zedong and making money. But as new generations emerge that have no firsthand recollection of Mao's deprivations, this will not be enough. As Abraham Masl

gypt's Morsi Gets Marks for Speed, Not Style in Foreign Policy Nabil Fahmy (Translated from: Al-Masry Al-Youm — Egypt) Oct 13, 2012 -- President Mohammed Morsi did not list Egyptian foreign policy as one of the five issues that would be prioritized during the first 100 days of his presidency. He specified

, it is known as the "century of humiliation": the period starting with Britain's victory in the First Opium War in 1842 and lasting at least until Mao Zedong's declaration of the People's Republic in 1949. Beginning in the 1850s, Russians seized advantage of Chinese disarray to pressure the Qing's northern

st communist states led to a set of border clashes, the most explosive of which occurred along an Amur River tributary in 1969. Five years earlier, Mao had infuriated Moscow when he told visiting Japanese reporters that much of the Russian Far East was stolen land; now, he instructed Chinese premi

st aspects of U.S.-Egypt cooperation and would be prepared to share power with other groups. Contrary to some early predictions, the government of Mohammed Morsi did not abrogate the Egyptian peace treaty with Israel, nor did it seek to interrupt relations with the United States, although it did move to dist

for her father, who was later assassinated by his intelligenc= chief.) Xi Jinping, China's new president, is the son of a revolutionar= colleague of Mao Tsetung who helped battle the Japanese during World War =1. North Korea's Kim Jong Eun is the grandson of Kim II-sung, who according to North Korean mythol

ident, is the son of a revolutionar= colleague of Mao Tsetung who helped battle the Japanese during Wo

d the passage of a new con=titution by referendum in December, but those unreconciled to the reign of=the Brotherhood wanted nothing to do with it. Mohammed Morsi has the presidency, but he was defied some days=ago when he ordered a curfew in the cities of Ismailia, Suez and Port Said= Thousands went into the

nty over the Tibetan plateau. In 1962, flimsy history, confusion over the border's very location and the imperatives of two relatively young states—Mao's People's Republic and newly independent India led by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru—led to China humiliating India in a crushing defeat where, b

srael has since eased some restrictions, but still bars virtually all exports and restricts the imports of key raw materials. Mubarak's successor, Mohammed Morsi — who hails from the Muslim Brotherhood — has been reluctant to open the Gaza-Egypt border to trade, in part because this could inadvertently foste