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...seat theater sells out its Zen Tea Show. Performed against the world's largest LCD screen, this hour-long spectacle combines ballet, kung fu and dancing teapots while reminding the audience of China's Buddhist roots. A mountaintop temple is being built nearby to ensure the resort's feng shui, and reminders of modern China are everywhere within the alpine resort itself. One of those quaint Swiss chalets is, in fact, a KFC outlet, while that "mist" rising from the hills is actually smog...
...world in different ways,” Bojic says. The festival, she adds, is meant “to spark discussion and ideas” in people, while enabling them “to discuss the topics with filmmakers.” Among the filmmakers attending will be Shui-Bo Wang, whose “They Chose China” tells the story of 21 American soldiers who were POWs in the Korean War and decided to stay in China after being released at the war’s end. The film won the United Nations Association grand jury prize...
What's in a name? For Taiwan, the answer may be its survival. The latest political gambit by outgoing President Chen Shui-bian has both elicited veiled threats from China and pitted his country against its main ally, the U.S. At issue is the name under which Taiwan intends to apply to regain membership in the United Nations. Chen has called for a referendum next March on whether the island should forgo its official name (the Republic of China) in favor of Taiwan. It's a provocative gesture, as it would seemingly codify Chen's contention that the island...
...Over the past seven years in office, President Chen Shui-bian has pushed an agenda focused on a sovereign Taiwan independent of Beijing, which considers the territory an inseparable part of China. But Chen's latest political gambit, a public referendum next year on the island's bid for membership in the United Nations, has done more than elicit sharp criticism and veiled threats from China. It's also caused frictions with its main military defender, the United States...
...goodwill is being reciprocated in Taiwan, where the suspicion that works from the mainland have ulterior political motives has almost entirely dissipated. When the terracotta army made its first trip to Taiwan in 2000, some in President Chen Shui-bian's independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party interpreted the exhibit as a veiled attempt by Beijing to whip up pro-China sentiment. This time around, no one so much as raised an eyebrow. "People used to ask why bring this or that production over," says Wu Jing-jyi, who formerly chaired the National Chiang Kai-shek Cultural Center...