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...execution?into the country to inspect the refugee situation along China's border with the North. Some U.S. Congressmen are calling for America to share costs for the resettlement of refugees with South Korea, Russia, China and other Asian countries, which might make the tactic more palatable to the mainland. But diplomats say by approving Brownback's visit, Beijing may merely be warning North Korea to shape up or risk losing its support...
...stage the fights, Zhang chose Ching Siu-tung, a renowned choreographer who has also directed 21 features, including such Hong Kong classics as A Chinese Ghost Story, Swordsman II and The Heroic Trio?not to mention a 1989 quickie called A Terracotta Warrior, starring two kids from the mainland, Gong Li and Zhang Yimou. The very first set-to in Hero is a terrific one between Li and Yen. (Each man first imagines the fight, like a chess player visualizing his opponent's possible moves.) How swift their swords! How eloquent their body language...
...long history of propping up the country's bankrupt regime. In 1950, Chinese troops poured across the Yalu River and fought the U.S. to a stalemate, ending the Korean War and rescuing Kim's father, Kim Il Sung, founder of North Korea, from defeat. Today the mainland is North Korea's biggest benefactor, providing an estimated 40% of immediate food needs and 90% of its oil, according to the Heritage Foundation, a Washington D.C.-based research institute. Beijing has usually backed the North on the diplomatic front, too. But today there are signs that China is fed up with...
...quarter-century, from early Bruce Lee to late Jackie Chan, martial arts was the pulse to which Hong Kong films ticked and kicked. Those were expressions of the industry's vital adolescence. Hero shows how the same vitality can serve a thoughtful, resonant, mainland maturity. This is a story of noble insurgence against noble fidelity, and of the ways love may find its fulfillment only in death. Zhang Yimou may have dipped his cinematic pen in "mere" genre, but in doing so, he has inscribed a masterpiece...
...President Jiang Zemin put North Korea high on their agenda, and afterwards issued a joint statement urging Pyongyang to drop its nuclear weapons program. Last week, Beijing signaled that Kim, who has visited China twice in the last three years, is for the moment persona non grata on the mainland. Asked about reports that a sit-down between Kim and Chinese leaders was imminent, Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said: "There is no such thing." "The idea that China will support North Korea whatever it does is over now," says Victor Cha, an Asia specialist at Georgetown University. Adds Kenneth...