ID Date Year Aircraft Model Aircraft Tail #Aircraft Type# of SeatsDEP: CodeARR: CodeDEP ARR Flight_No.Pass # Unique ID First Name Last Name Last, First First Last Comment Initials Known Data Source 427611/17/19951995G-1159B N908JE Jet 22 CMH PBI Columbus, OH, United States West Palm Beach, FL, United States779 Pass 1 35020-G-1159B-N908JE-CMH-PBI-779-Pass 1Jeff Epstein Epstein, Jeff Jeff Epstein JE Yes Flight Log 427711/20/19951995G-1159B N908JE Jet 22 PBI TEB West Palm Beach, FL, United States Teterboro, NJ, United States 780 Pass 1 35023-G-1159B-N908JE-PBI-TEB-780-Pass 1Jeff Epstein Epstein, Jeff Jeff Epstein JE Yes Flight Log 427811/20/19951995G-1159B N908JE Jet 22 PBI TEB West Palm Beach, FL, United States Teterboro, NJ, United States 780 Pass 2 36936-G-1159B-N908JE-PBI-SAF-1075-Pass 5A S S, A A S AS No Flight Log 427911/21/19951995G-1159B N908JE Jet 22 TEB PBI Teterboro, NJ, United States West Palm Beach, FL, United States781 Pass 1 35024-G-1159B-N908JE-TEB-PBI-781-Pass 1Jeff Epstein Epstein, Jeff Jeff Epstein JE Yes Flight Log 428011/21/19951995G-1159B N908JE Jet 22 TEB PBI Teterboro, NJ, United States West Palm Beach, FL, United States781 Pass 2 36936-G-1159B-N908JE-PBI-SAF-1075-Pass 7A S S, A A S AS No Flight Log 428111/21/19951995G-1159B N908JE Jet 22 TEB PBI Teterboro, NJ, United States West Palm Beach, FL, United States781 Pass 3 35024-G-1159B-N908JE-TEB-PBI-781-Pass 3Eva Dubin Dubin, Eva Eva Dubin ED Yes Flight Log 428211/21/19951995G-1159B N908JE Jet 22 TEB

25 practices for cooperating with China in ways that do not undermine national interests should be a regular topic at annual meetings. e Meet with stakeholders across sectors—local leaders of industry, academia, the arts, religious groups, Chinese American organizations, and professional associations—to discuss issues emerging from cooperation with China, because a community-wide approach is required. e Celebrate successes and share best practices. In the era of US-China competition, there is more reason than ever to publicize cooperative projects that enrich local communities, build understanding, and solve common problems, while always being mindful of the larger framework of China’s goal and American interests. Promote Integrity Sub-national governments should: e Educate themselves and other stakeholders on the goals and methods of Chinese influence operations. While Americans are quick to label any wariness of communist parties as McCarthyism, and while the potential for racial stereotyping is real, the Chinese Communist Party’s United Front Work Department and International Liaison Department—two of the main bodies overseeing such exchanges—are in fact active and well resourced and determined. No mainland Chinese organization in the United States—corporate, academic, or people-to-people—is free of Beijing’s control, even if it is not formally part of the United Front. e Keep abreast of Washington’s China policies and improve political risk analysis capabilities

24 his city’s independence from the looming Sino-US trade war. Garcetti stated that Los Angeles and China “have closely integrated economies, closely integrated cultures and closely integrated geography. ... We hope to be the leading Chinese city in America for investment, tourism and students.”” Sometimes federalism, in the form of local leaders’ independent China policies, is a good thing and may, during times of upheaval in Washington, DC, help to offset unwise national policies. But if US-China relations continue on their current downward trajectory, there will be an increased danger that independent state and municipal China policies will sometimes conflict with national interest and hinder the United States in its competition with China to shape global norms and practices. As China’s wealth and ambition grow and as Beijing is becoming more adept at turning local American “China interests” into Chinese leverage, sub-national American governmental entities that formed their China policies in the Era of Engagement must become mindful that a new era will require them to develop new strategies for a new Era of Competition. Conclusion and Recommendations The following practices can foster the kind of constructive vigilance that local governments will need to exercise in their continued cooperation with China. Promote Transparency Sub-national governments should: e Not have secret agreements with Chinese entities, including foundations, corporations, or individual

23 affiliates.'* These and other organizations maintain close ties to China’s diplomatic missions in the United States and are often in contact with training or “cultural exchange” companies that bring delegations of PRC experts and Communist Party members to US cities and states for so-called study tours. US and Chinese groups promoting exchanges and investment have often been a valuable resource for American local leaders—see, for example, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts annual China Fest’ or the Chinese investment program in Greenville, South Carolina'*—but there have been other instances in which American politicians working with Chinese organizations have been drawn into schemes that cost them their jobs. Perhaps the most telling case is that of four officials in Ypsilanti, Michigan, who, in 2017, accepted a trip to China that they had been told was paid for by the Wayne State CSSA. The trip was eventually revealed as a boondoggle funded by a developer, Amy Xue Foster, who hoped to build a $300 million “Chinatown” in the area.® The four officials, including the mayor, were fired. This is not to suggest that shady Chinese nationals are always plotting to corrupt otherwise innocent American leaders; US politicians have a long history of willingly accepting free trips, gifts, and other favors from the PRC or its fronts. As other sections of this study make clear, however, Beijing-directed activities such as the secret purchase of American Chinese-language newspaper

22 Beginning in the early 1970s, China and the United States built trust and common prosperity through cooperation at the local level. The work of two hundred sister city pairs and over forty sister state/province partnerships was reinforced by state and city trade and investment promotion offices, chambers of commerce, Chinese American and traditional clan associations, Chinatown cultural centers, and various and sundry activities at US colleges and universities, secondary schools, church groups, and museums. Following the establishment of the pioneering Washington State China Relations Council in 1979,* centers for joint innovation and entrepreneurship, such as the Michigan China Innovation Center’ and the Maryland China Business Council* were set up in nearly every state. Twenty-seven states now maintain trade offices in China—more than in any other nation.’ Americans of Mainland, Taiwanese, and Hong Kong ancestry have founded cultural centers like the Asia Institute-Crane House in Louisville, Kentucky,® and the China Institute in New York.’ After forty years of engagement, the US-China focused foundations, educational and exchange programs, research institutes, and arts and entertainment initiatives throughout the country are too many and various to be cataloged. American mayors, county executives, and governors—many of whom travel to China often and host an unending stream of Chinese visitors—have leveraged the work of these groups to enrich local coffers and local cu

21 national leaders of tomorrow. For China, all exchanges have a political character and hopefully a political harvest. Third, it is important for local officials to understand that local American “exchange” companies that bring Chinese delegations to the United States and promote professional interactions between the United States and China all depend on official PRC sanction and have received approval to receive Chinese delegations. The business model of such companies is, of necessity, as much political as financial. Even if they conduct high-quality programs, they should not be viewed as disinterested actors. They, too, are subject to rules made by the Chinese Communist Party, its united front bureaucracy, and united front strategic imperatives. Finally, American citizens of PRC origin have played a key role in promoting mutually beneficial engagement over the past forty years. As US-China relations grow more contentious, however, and as Beijing calls more aggressively for diaspora Chinese to serve the “motherland,” it will be necessary for citizen diplomats (including those who are not of PRC origin) to better educate themselves about American national interests in the US-China competition and the areas in which the nation’s values, institutional practices, and strategic goals are incompatible. Such awareness is even more vital for Chinese Americans who seek political office and whose abilities to navigate these shoals will depend on their knowledge of this complex

20 of the US federal government. Because most PRC attempts to influence American opinion and practices occur at the local level, and because local media, universities, companies, and advocacy agencies are often involved in these efforts, knowingly and unknowingly, local leaders, just as much as national leaders, need an understanding of PRC goals and strategies. “We Have Friends All Over the World” China pursues sister city relationships under an organization called the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, which is part of China’s united front bureaucratic structure (See Appendix: Chinese Influence Operations Bureaucracy) that aims to strengthen the rule of the Chinese Communist Party and increase China’s influence overseas. With its long-standing Maoist slogan, “We Have Friends All Over the World,” the association had its heyday in the 1950s, when China was isolated and the group became a bridge between China and overseas supporters. It was marginalized in the 1980s, as China opened to the West and established diplomatic relations with hundreds of countries. However, under the administration of Communist Party leader Xi Jinping, the association has been revitalized as China seeks to groom local business, political, and media leaders in countries around the world. Its new standing is exemplified by the splendor of its headquarters located in the elegant old Italian Embassy compound near Tiananmen Square. The way the association and other

SECTION 2 state and Local Governments In late 2017, an American city in the mid-Atlantic region was invited to form a sister city relationship with a town in southern China. The American partner city was home to a large number of national security professionals and university and government scientists, including many of PRC origin. The partnership was proposed and shepherded by the manager of a for-profit Chinese “exchanges” company—a woman of PRC origin. She was assisted by an American citizen of PRC origin who was running for a position on the local school board. In a briefing, an American China expert told the local sister city committee that there was no reason not to explore a partnership, provided the American side had defined goals and was aware of Beijing’s increasingly repressive domestic policies, its growing suspicions of US influence, and its well-funded efforts to increase its influence overseas. The man running for the local school board objected to this characterization and pointed out that China’s constitution gives the CCP paramount authority in China. After a long debate, the new sister city agreement was signed in the fall of 2018. Some Americans involved objected to China’s insistence that all sister city activities be carried out “in accordance with the principles on the establishment of diplomatic relations between the United States of America and the People’s Republic of China (ARFE SEA 2 2c BMN),” because this seemed to be a reference to the On

18 6 Bowe, Alexander. “China’s Overseas United Front Work.” US-China Economic and Security Review Commission. August 24, 2018. https://www.uscc.gov/sites/default/files/Research/China%27s%20 Overseas%20United%20Front%20Work%20 -%20Background%20and%20Implications%20for%20US_final _0.pdf. 7 Information from a participant on one trip to China arranged by Jimmy Wong. 8 Mattis, Peter. “Contrasting China and Russia’s Influence Operations.” War on the Rocks. January 2018. https://warontherocks.com/2018/01/contrasting-chinas-russias-influence-operations. 9 See Foreign Travel Paid for by a Foreign Government, US Congress, House Ethics Committee https://ethics -house.gov/travel-information/travel-paid-foreign-government (accessed October 5, 2018). 10 This section relies heavily on Gill, Bates, and Melissa Murphy. Meeting the Challenges and Opportunities of China’s Rise. Washington DC: CSIS. 2006: 6-12. 11 Pomfret, John. “China’s Lobbying Efforts Yield New Influence, Openness on Capitol Hill.” Washington Post. January 9, 2010. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/08 /AR2010010803710.html?sid=ST2010010900293; Reid, Tim and Cornwell, Susan. “Exclusive: China Launches Lobbying Push on Currency Bill.” Reuters. October 11, 2011. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china -lobbying/exclusive-china-launches-lobbying-push-on-currency-bill-idUSTRE79A76S20111012. 12 Ibid. Congress HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020477

and hard to predict, and there aren't any good medical resources on the matter. Maybe the pain points to something unusual about my constitution. Maybe there's a reason it's harder for me to have orgasms than the "average" woman. But the vaginal pain itself is not overwhelming, on the rare occasions that it crops up. And the vaginal pain 1s not even close to the most central issue of my sexuality -- or the biggest influence on my orgasmic ability. mK OK OK I. S&M I identify my sexuality as BDSM -- a.k.a. kink, leather, fetish, S&M, or B&D. BDSM is a 6-for-4 acronym that encompasses a host of related activities, including bondage, discipline, dominance, submission, sadism and masochism. And yeah, I'm really into it: my desires are heavy and overwhelming; I dream of agony, of terrified screams for mercy. I've gone so far as to describe BDSM as my sexual orientation. Before someone goes leaping to conclusions, there 1s a definite difference between "good pain" and "bad pain." The occasional pain I feel within my vagina is not good pain; it's not even interesting. It's just annoying. It's not sexy or enjoyable at all. Some of us in the BDSM community have felt lifelong tendencies towards BDSM. We have conversations ending with thrilled exclamations: "You mean, you tied up your Barbie dolls as a child too?!" But BDSM is widely misunderstood and negatively stereotyped, and thus, many of us also went through periods of rejection. We've internalized so much anti-BDSM stigma fro

works. it will never work. and I try so hard not to get frustrated, but I can't avoid the knowledge that I am fucked up, | must be broken. I mean, any normal woman would have come by now. so what do I do? I don't know what I need. do I back off and focus on him? that's what I end up doing, because I can't face asking for a little more attention in bed anymore. what's the point? he'll just resent me when it doesn't work again. so I back off. and I can't help resenting him, just a little, for not noticing how much I'm hurting. and not trying, even if am broken, and I will never ever come. ok oo OK I. Vaginal Pain When I wrote the above, I was actually pretty close to figuring out how to have an orgasm. But I didn't know that. I'd dealt with the anxiety of being unable to come for so long -- and I'd also recently begun to understand that my sexuality is oriented towards S&M -- and so anguish just flooded out of me, into those words. I craved S&M, but acknowledging the craving made me feel like a "pervert," a "freak." It contributed to my already-overwhelming fear that I was "broken" because I couldn't figure out how to come. There's one thing I didn't mention when I poured out all that fear and shame: I experience rare vaginal pain -- not every time I have sex, not even most times, but occasionally. Medical science has traditionally failed to care about how women experience our sexuality, so very little research has been done on the subject. As a result, it's impossible to

This can be found on the Internet at: http://clarissethorn.com/blog/2011/04/22/going-under/ ORGASMIC "DYSFUNCTION": [storytime] A Unified Theory of Orgasm At one point during my blogging career, an editor for the iconic feminist publication Ms. Magazine got in touch and asked me to do some promotion for them. I asked if they would accept a submission from me, and when the editor said yes, | poured my soul into this long article about my experiences learning how to have an orgasm. The article was rejected by Ms., so I went back to my old friend the Internet and got published on the adorable girl-power site OffOurChests.com. Then it was cross-posted in about a million places. I would love to get published in Ms., but in retrospect, I'm actually glad that this piece went out on the Internet instead of being trapped in a print publication. I've received an enormous amount of positive feedback for this piece, and I'm certain that most of the young people who tell me it helped them would never have seen it if it were in a print magazine. ok oo OK A Unified Theory of Orgasm I CAN'T COME. and it's poisoned every romance I've ever had. masturbating doesn't work. I don't know why. I tried therapy too, but my smart, understanding, sex-positive, open-hearted doctor couldn't help. drugs while fucking? check. I date attentive men who only want to make me happy, but no matter how fantastic they make me feel, I can't get off. and believe me, I like sex. I love sex! how can it feel so g

see I'm not here? Can't you see I'm under? Don't drag me back -- Intellectually, I understood that my frustration was unreasonable, and I did my best to train myself to deal with the check-ins. To surface quickly, slip back under afterwards. But I had to experience subspace from the dominant side before I understood how hard it was to deal with. I remember sitting with my arms around the submissive and occasionally asking him how he was; in response, he would murmur and snuggle up to me. Ten minutes. Twenty minutes. I was processing my own dominant experience, and I had questions; I'd occasionally ask one. He'd murmur something softly. After a while I really wanted a glass of water and I thought he'd basically fallen asleep, so I said, "Hey, I'm going to go get a glass of water, okay?" and tried to move away. "No," he cried, and grabbed me. Holy shit, I thought, so that's what surfacing from subspace can look like from the outside. Suddenly I understood exactly where his head was at: barely any time had passed for him at all, and he was still drifting up through velvety layers of consciousness. When I tried to leave, he'd felt sudden panic, a shot of pure abandonment, no no no you can't, you can't leave me alone when I'm like this, please I need your arms around me, I need you -- I knew exactly what to tell him. "Shh," I said, "I'm here." A dominant friend once told me that he always informs his partners ahead of time that he has to move after a good scene, he has to go f

Subspace is so hard to describe. I've written about it before, in passing, so many times, because it's so important, but I've never come up with a good description for it; and when I Google for it I can see that other people have the same problem. When I'm starting to go into subspace it's just soft and dark and slow. But when I'm really far under, I'm totally blank. Falling. Flying. Somewhere else. Come back. What is it, where do I go? It's just submissive, masochist headspace. But I don't always get into subspace when I submit, and I don't always get into it when I take pain either. I'm not sure what the other ingredients are: some amount of trust, of course. And strong feelings about my partner make everything more intense... way more intense. Orders of magnitude more intense. Still, I've had new partners put me under with surprising thoroughness. It's a lot like deep sexual arousal -- hard to think, hard to process, hard to make decisions -- but the deepest sexual arousal does not put me anywhere near deep subspace. Deep subspace is. More. Than anything else. Some S&M teachers tell people not to drive after an S&M encounter, not for a while; not until you're over the subspace. They compare it to an altered state, like being drunk. Some S&M teachers caution that it's dangerous for the dominant partner to suggest a new activity in the middle of an S&M encounter -- something that wasn't negotiated beforehand -- because the submissive may not be able to think clearly enou

And of course, substance abuse problems are a whole nother ballgame. But if a person has been drinking a glass of wine with dinner every night for 10 years, then I'm not going to tell her that I consider her incapable of doing BDSM after dinner. I am not qualified to comment on non-alcohol drugs because I, of course, never do anything illegal. But for all your drug-related questions, the website Erowid.org is often very useful. * Illness. I don't have any particular observations about how being sick changes my experience of S&M, but it definitely does. When I get sick and I have the option to reschedule a date, I always do. * Aaand finally, menstrual cycle. I haven't tracked my cycle with enough care to know exactly how it affects me S&M-wise, but I'm pretty sure it does. As one of the good people at EduKink once observed, "The great part about playing with a woman is that you have 28 different partners, one for each day of the month!" a This can be found on the Internet at: http://clarissethorn.com/blog/2011/01/30/body-chemistry-and-sm/ S&M: [theory] Going Under This was originally published in 2011. People have asked me whether there's any actual research out there on the altered states that some people access through S&M; as far as I know, there isn't. It's also worth noting that a lot of dominant partners go into another kind of "zone" that's sometimes called top-space. a Going Under "Come back," an S&M partner said softly, the other day, pushing my hair out of

A final note on food: I know there are people who specifically include food deprivation as part of their S&M. Obviously, this is totally fine by me as long as it is consensual, but I'd encourage people not to expect themselves -- or their partners -- to react the way they usually do to S&M, as long as they're hungry. * Weight. I used to be much scrawnier than I am now, and as my health has improved, I've gained weight. Sometimes this freaks me out (it's impossible to be female in our society and not daydream about having cheekbones that can stab people), but it has been worth it. One time, after I'd been having a lot of anxiety about weight gain, my then- boyfriend emailed me the image of an art card printed with the words, "I gained 30 pounds... & sex has never been better!" He perceptively wrote: "Maybe that's why it's easier for you to have orgasms now? | think you should investigate this if you try to lose weight." I am not in a position to comment about whether being overweight affects sex. But I can definitely assure you that being underweight is not good for your sexual well-being. * Sleep. I much prefer to have S&M encounters on days when I've gotten a lot of sleep the night before; this is at least as crucial as eating well before an encounter. There are approximately a billion studies that show the far-reaching effects that getting enough sleep can have on our health, and they seem to usually recommend around 7-8 hours as a good amount per night (more for teenage

[theory| Body Chemistry and S&M This was originally published in 2011. I don't normally write basic "how-to" posts like this, but every once in a while I see a gap I just have to fill. %* Ok Body Chemistry and S&M I often think that good physical health is a widely-ignored element of good sex. I am obviously not saying that people in poor health can't have good sex (and in fact, I certainly hope they do -- more power to 'em). But it consistently amazes me how much my physical health factors into my sexuality, especially S&M. I am by no means an expert on this topic, but here are some examples: * Food. I am both less interested in sex and in S&M when I'm hungry; ensuring that I've eaten well before I take some punishment is especially crucial. I try to eat well in general, but if I'm planning to have a heavy S&M encounter, I don't cut myself any slack. I try to specifically ensure that I eat enough protein before the date and I try to include some vitamin-heavy foods like beets, leafy green vegetables, etc. Eggs are a good source of protein; nuts, beans and tofu are my primary protein sources. If I don't have enough protein available for whatever reason, I at least eat enough food that I won't be hungry when I see my partner. Part of the reason I'm writing this right now is that I've had trouble finding useful resources on the Internet for what people recommend as good pre- or post-S&M food, especially during aftercare. "Aftercare" 1s an S&M term for how people end their

and came to the ending, where Sir Stephen loses interest in O and tells her to kill herself. I can also remember being furious with the way Nine And A Half Weeks (the book, not the movie) ends. The submissive woman has a public breakdown. She begins to cry hysterically, and is abandoned by her master, so that strangers have to obtain help for her. One of the cruelest stereotypes of S/M people is that we don't love each other, that there is something about our sexual style that makes our relationships mutually destructive and predisposes us to suicide. This quotation came to mind during a conversation I had a few days ago: I was talking to a girl who really likes BDSM sex but referred to non-BDSM sex as "love sex." Because, you know, love is just not an ingredient in BDSM sex. "Everyone knows" that -- the same way “everyone knows" that BDSM always arises from childhood abuse, or dominant sadism 1s for villains, or everyone who likes BDSM is damaged and miserable and irresponsible, or.... Not to put too fine a point on it: fuck that. I'm not saying there's no BDSM smut out there with love in it. Anne Rice's Beauty series ends with Beauty riding off into the sunset with her loving sadomasochistic partner (although of course the characters deal with all kinds of uncaring brutality first). But even nuanced BDSM erotica seems to fall into this trap more often than not -- for example, Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Dart, which is so consciously written that it includes safewords, a

made the shower a million times easier to deal with," he said later. "And I had a raging erection the whole time." Aren't submissives awesome? I pity those of you who lack submissive tendencies. Just because anything on the Internet can and will be misread, I will conclude this post by hammering down the point that this is all a thought experiment, and I do not actually think vanilla people are any less wonderful than S&M people. It's okay vanilla folks. I love you just the way you are. eS This post can be found on the Internet at: http://clarissethorn.com/blog/2011/06/21/sm-superpowers/ S&M: [theory] BDSM Can Be "Love Sex" Too In early 2011, my fellow sex blogger Rachel Rabbit White asked me to participate in her initiative "Lady Porn Day.” This was the result. There's a list of relevant links at the end of the online version of this article. ok oo OK BDSM Can Be "Love Sex" Too I'm not a big porn consumer, but I have no problem with porn in itself. When I have a problem with porn, it's because I have a problem with how it was made: because there are labor issues, or questions of the actors' consent. Sometimes, I get frustrated with the context in which porn exists or the stereotypes it expresses -- but there, the problem 1s with the context and the stereotypes, not with porn in itself. I tend to think that most anti- porn anxiety arises from irrational grossed-out reactions and stereotype-created fears, and I try to open up conversations about the ethics of making p

20,000 people and found that S&Mers "were no more likely to have been coerced into sexual activity" than the general population. But -- also for the record -- an S&Mer whose sexuality was associated with being abused would not be "less legitimate" than the rest of us, as long as that person practiced kink consensually. Because what makes S&M okay is consent, right? Right. S&M isn't okay or not okay because of its "source," whatever that might be -- it's okay only when it's practiced consensually, right? Right. So this is all actually kind of a silly conversation to have in the first place, right? Right. It’s too bad stigma tends to make zero sense, isn't it? Stigma loves to trick you into debating on its own terms.) It's much more entertaining to imagine how people would talk about S&M, if we lived in a culture where S&M wasn't wildly stigmatized. In fact, what if S&M were admired or seen as a great thing... instead of being repressed and forced underground and seen as a dark, evil, disgusting thing? I've known people who called S&M and other fetishes "superpowers," in a kind of ironic twist on this concept. Many people have written about how S&Mers can offer lessons in sexuality that we gleaned from our outside-the-box perspective (there's a whole paper on this topic for clinicians, written by psychologist Peggy Kleinplatz and titled "Learning from Extraordinary Lovers"). I myself have talked about how S&Mers tend to use much more careful and precise sexual communication t