Matthew Oresman is project coordinator for the Freeman Chair at CSIS.A glorious return to form after the slightly underwhelming CJ7 (2008) and his first ever directorial effort in which he doesn’t also play the lead role, Stephen Chow’s Journey To The West: Conquering The Demons is a thoroughly entertaining action comedy that suggests, a la Woody Allen, a promising new life behind the screen for the actor-director, who found an eager international audience with 2001’s Shaolin Soccer and 2004’s Kung Fu Hustle after having established himself as Hong Kong’s most iconic comedian since the early 1990s.Īs is frequently the case for the recent Stephen Chow movies, violence and gore are used occasionally to comical effects. Previously, he was a senior fellow in foreign policy at the Brookings Institution.
This report argues that China's prominence in Central Asia will grow over the next decade, particularly if Russia's position continues to wane and the strategic attention of the United States is drawn elsewhere in the years ahead.īates Gill holds the Freeman Chair in China Studies at CSIS. China has moved rapidly from the difficult task of delineating and disarming its borders with Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan to building a multilateral organization and growing economic and security ties, all the while working to alleviate traditional suspicions among Central Asian states about the Chinese government's true intentions. China's interest in building relations with Central Asia is not startling given its history, but the agility and creativity it has recently exercised in doing so has taken many by surprise. One of the most intriguing developments in Central Asia over the past decade has been China's renewed attention to diplomacy in the region.
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