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...crumble. General Pang and Lian Sheng fall in love and begin an affair, despite the fact that Lian Sheng is Er Hu’s wife. Pang’s ambition grows as he leads the brothers and their armies to victory after victory against rebels in the kingdom; but with increased ambition comes increased corruption. He is often in conflict with the purer morals of his brothers, and his determination to become a powerful government official turns “The Warlords” from a war-movie bromance into a devastating moral tragedy centered around the complete destruction...
...China familiar to anyone who works in its streets and corridors of power. This is the China that has grown for 30 years at an average rate of some 10% a year with no rule of law. It is a very different place from the polite, harmony-seeking Middle Kingdom many Westerners expect. Real China can baffle Westerners and confound them as easily in political negotiations as in the sort of commercial nightmares that are only too commonplace. This is part of the reason our diplomacy toward Beijing often falters, as if Alice in Wonderland were dropped into a Roller...
Koirala, popularly known as GP Koirala, was at the forefront of mass protests in 1990 that eventually forced Nepal's King Birendra to introduce multiparty democracy into the Himalayan kingdom. Elections then catapulted Koirala and his Nepali Congress Party into power in 1991. But the subsequent years would be tumultuous ones, as a Maoist rebellion ravaged Nepal, leading to thousands of deaths. Power struggles and factional demagoguery came to define Kathmandu politics...
...Each of them will be counting on continued Chinese growth to help pull the world through economic recovery and beyond, but they can't afford to be complacent about their business relationships with the Middle Kingdom. On March 21, the American Chamber of Commerce in Beijing reported that 38% of the companies responding to a recent survey felt frozen out - "unwelcome to participate and compete in the Chinese market" - a steep rise from 26% a year...
...American adventure on its soldiers (In the Valley of Elah) and civilians (Lions for Lambs) or on U.S. foreign policy (Rendition), the response was tepid. No Middle East war film has earned even $50 million at the domestic box office, and the one that came closest, The Kingdom, was a gung-ho action picture. Nor has the public's apathy abated. The Best Picture, Director and Screenplay awards that The Hurt Locker won on Oscar night served only as a gigantic promotion for the movie's DVD. In theaters it was the lowest-grossing Best Picture winner of all time...