Word: trickyness
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Directors like Feng are the future of Chinese cinema, and their business is a tricky one. Obscure art-house films were fine back in the day when the directors were coddled with generous government subsidies. But in today's China, filmmakers must scramble for financing. To make matters worse, rampant...
The trouble is, nobody knows who will rule China in 2008. By then the Communist Party will have undergone a tricky succession; its previous two changes came amid purges and massive unrest. Olympic scrutiny intensified upheaval in Mexico in 1968 and South Korea in 1988. Awarding China the rings now...
Not always. Last week, just 36 hours before Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi was to meet at Camp David with U.S. President George W. Bush for the first time, Okinawa suffered the type of ugly incident that happens with depressing regularity?becoming, once again, one of the most tricky points...
That attitude could be bad for business in Europe if the continent is seen as protectionist by outside companies; it could be good for business everywhere if the European theory of consolidation, competition and the greater good turns out to be the smart call. But now that the EU has...
Even with the changes, however, the film will open at a tricky moment in Japan. For many of today's Japanese, Pearl Harbor recalls not the surprise attack of a half-century ago but the accidental sinking of a Japanese fishing boat by a U.S. Navy submarine earlier this year...