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Return of the space race? The Russians can't afford a space programme now; the US has lost interest. So will China be next to reach for the stars? - Space
The early decades of the space age were dominated by the Americans and the Russians. Will their near-monopoly continue? The American space programme ......(Continue Reading) China's Olympics
LATE on the evening of Friday 13 July, 2001, in Beijing a long, deep-throated roar greeted with tumultuous joy the announcement from Moscow that the ......(Continue Reading)Cold War warriors: MIA from film: even when treating the Cold War, Hollywood has excluded those who actually waged it. When military personnel have been
"Of all the arts, the cinema is the most important," Soviet dictator Vladimir Lenin declared. It's ironic that one of history's most notorious ......(Continue Reading)China Boy
That first trip to China I was into Eastern religions. I held all life sacred, not just vertebrates like me. Bugs were God's creatures, and who could say what form they took in a previous incarnation...(Continue Reading)Japan snores through Pearl Harbor - Critical Essay
The Hollywood turkey about the Second World War does not excite the Japanese. But that says more about their notion of history than of film. Apathy ......(Continue Reading)
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