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...shrug off the demands of the international market in favor of more directional work, their art often meets the criticism from the government, often resulting in professional dismissal and bans on public displays of art. Nonetheless, Chinese artists today, due in great part to the art boom in their nation, are presented with incredible prospects. While the prices of art made by Chinese may fall, foreign interest in the Chinese art scene is unlikely to wane. If the work of Xu Bing makes one thing apparent, it is that the creation of Chinese art that sells, but lacks declarations...
Japan, once the world's biggest donor nation, is stepping up efforts to boost its influence in resource-rich developing countries by creating a super agency that will dispense billions of dollars a year in foreign aid, most of it bound for Africa and Asia - regions where China is rapidly increasing its clout as an aid donor and commercial partner...
...entirely altruistic. The economic rise of China, India and other countries means resource-poor Japan faces increasing competition for commodities such as oil and metals. Foreign aid is a way to cement relationships with potential trade partners. Development experts such as Jeffrey Sachs, Special Advisor to the United Nation's Secretary General on development goals, say that China is providing billions of dollars each year to Africa, although no one knows the official figure. Japan's trade with Africa, about $25 billion, is about one third of China's trade with the continent. Tokyo's move to expand JICA...
...lines between the Afghanistan at war and the Afghanistan at peace alter daily. Cities accessible by road today may only be reached by plane - or not at all - tomorrow. And so follow the boundaries of the nation's tiny tourism industry. The few foreign tourists who come to Afghanistan, estimated to number under a thousand yearly, need plenty of help to pull off their holidays safely. In cities like Kabul, Herat, Faizabad and Mazar-i-Sharif, a small legion of Afghans who spent the last seven years as translators and security aides are spinning their expertise at navigating this shifting...
Mann says there are two kinds of tourists who venture to Afghanistan. Some come seeking to escape to remote places like the Wakhan Corridor, an elevated, sparsely populated strip of Afghanistan that reaches China between Pakistan and Tajikistan. Others come to witness the nation's raw history of recent conflict. Last March, Blair Kangley, a 56-year-old American, traveled with Afghan Logistics and Tours from Kabul to the Bamian valley, famous as the site of the once-towering Buddhas, blown up by the Taliban in 2001. While tour guide Mubim accompanied Kangley on what was planned...