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...Weinsteins are good at knowing what films the world wants to see," agrees John Chong, CEO of Media Asia, the largest distributor of Chinese films for international audiences. Chong doesn't see the Weinsteins' buying power as a threat, but rather as a way of fostering younger talent and helping the industry grow, giving Media Asia more future films to purchase. "It will be a booming period," Chong predicts. "If they're successful very quickly, maybe more independent film producers will be coming into the China market and the Asia market...
Such foot-dragging is dangerous for Indonesia and the rest of the world. As the WHO outlined in its annual World Health Report, released Thursday, the globe has grown so interconnected that open international cooperation is the only way to respond to infectious disease threats like avian flu. Diseases don't respect boundaries - from Bali, bird flu could hop a direct international flight to almost any country in Asia, and then the world. Avian flu has fallen out of the headlines, but that doesn't mean the disease has been eliminated, or the threat of a pandemic has disappeared...
...that sense, the speech Wednesday was textbook Bush, contrasting optimistic promises of regional liberty with warnings of an ever-expanding threat should America lose in Iraq. But the comparison to Vietnam took many observers by surprise, seeming not only inapt but also unnecessarily risky. Why undermine the historical arguments about Iraq with the specter of the Vietnam quagmire, especially after the President had gone out of his way several months ago to reject critics' charges that Iraq was turning into just that...
...Unions are vowing to fight Sarkozy's promise to pass legislation setting minimal levels of service in public transport and schools during strikes. The very threat of that measure has led labor leaders to propose staging potentially crippling walk-outs in September and October, when hundreds of thousands of visitors are expected to converge on France as it hosts rugby's World Cup. Sarkozy must also figure out how to pass a viable budget for 2008 that takes into account nearly $15 billion in income tax cuts opponents say benefit the wealthy, and the limited revenues sluggish growth with produce...
...Giuliani, however, seems to think it is almost impossible to overstate the risk. "We've never had a history of overestimating threats," says the former Mayor. "We underestimated by a lot the threat of Nazism." Yet when candidates give terrorists too much credit, they can inadvertently assist them in terrifying the public, says Frank J. Cilluffo, a terrorism expert at George Washington University. "Our words matter," he says. "The last thing we want to do is empower [terrorists] and make them holy warriors, which they...