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Foremost is trade. The U.S. and China, a huge and largely untapped market of 1.2 billion people, now do $50 billion worth of business with each other. Beyond that, the enormous amount of U.S. commerce with Asia as a whole gives Washington even more reason to discourage China from intimidating its neighbors, to say nothing of starting a war. China poses a particular security worry because it has atomic weapons and has sent nuclear technology to other countries. Finally, the U.S. has both a moral and a realpolitik interest in seeing China improve its human-rights record. Encouraging the establishment...
Four of the 12 delegates are officers of the Harvard Asia Law Society (HALS), the group organizing the trip. The other eight are students with a strong interest and background in Asia, according...
WONG KAR-WAI IS THE world's finest unknown auteur. Unknown, that is, to U.S. audiences. In Asia and Europe the 37-year-old Hong Kong writer-director is either a box-office sensation or a cult hero. Now that Quentin Tarantino's distribution company is releasing Wong's cool-jazzy 1994 romantic comedy Chungking Express, we get to catch...
MOVIES . . . CHUNGKING EXPRESS: "Wong kar-wai is the world's finest unknown auteur," says Corliss. Largely ignored in America, the 38-year-old Hong Kong writer-director is either a box-office sensation or a cult hero in Asia and Europe. The U.S. release of his cool-jazzy 1994 romantic comedy 'Chungking Express' should change that. The plot: two stories set in a late-night, neon Hong Kong. Or, actually, the same story, told twice with cunning variations: a cop thinks he's in love with one woman, then finds he?s drawn to another, more mysterious one. "Chungking has enough...
...people who are interested in the economic aspect of East Asia don't care about the culture, it's best they find another department," Alben says...