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...Peking University, "remains concerned that the Chinese population could overtake the Russian population in the border regions if labor policies were changed, and that would threaten national security." He says Russia gets nervous if China "sends as much as an economic research mission to one of the Central Asian countries." A marriage this may be, but it is one between porcupines. The Middle East is another area where Moscow is feeling revitalized - yet there again, within limits. Arab unhappiness with the U.S. invasion of Iraq and stagnation in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process have given the Kremlin an opening...
...also may be a problem for the U.S. diplomatic efforts to enlist its Asian allies to help curtail North Korea's nuclear ambitions. Under Koizumi - who travels this week to the U.S., making stops both in Washington and at Graceland - Japan has taken a more muscular role in world affairs and sent troops to Iraq. The changes have been warmly welcomed in Washington, which has long wanted Japan to shoulder more responsibility for its own defense and become a more substantial counterweight to the regional ambitions of China and North Korea. The U.S. has been alone among the other nations...
This week and next, thousands of movie lovers are flocking to their midsummer mecca on New York City?s Lower East Side. The New York Asian Film Festival, berthed at Anthology Film Archives, is unspooling 27 feature films (and two shorts) from Japan, India, Korea, Thailand and Malaysia. The partisan audiences may locate no masterpieces there, but they will be reminded that attending foreign films need not be a solemn duty. It can be an enthralling pleasure...
...Hong Kong films, the collective migrated from one old colony of the British Empire to another: India, which produces upwards of a thousand movies a year, and which has a vibrant movie vocabulary every bit exotic as, if less transgressive than, Hong Kong?s. They foraged through other Asian film industries, not as colonizers but explorers, and found colorful native trinkets in countries that rarely saw their films released in stateside theaters. The result of their treks was what they now call the New York Asian Film Festival, or NYAFF - which sounds like an Edward G. Robinson negative...
...coolest frat house on campus. Inevitably, as they grew older and threw their net wider, the Subway programmers acquired a more mature taste. Should I say, "I?m sorry to say"? Maybe. I miss the regularity of the shock value in their early selections. The last few Asian Film Festivals have been more like real film festivals, with selections that have won best-picture prizes in their home countries, or are meant to stoke an audience?s warmer emotions. Nice movies, which U.S. filmgoers already have enough of, thanks...