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Mon 11 Nov 2008Asian domination
As the affects of the worldwide recession become more apparent, is this the time for Asia to march forward and take over as market leaders? asks Paul Gillespie.
COULD THIS be the Asian century? Or is our present vision of what the 21st century has in store distorted by the evident changes in the international position of the United States and a misleading extrapolation of that geopolitical shift onto other world regions? What would it take, anyway, for Asia to assume such a predominant role? Does the region have the capacity to assert collective power and invent institutions able to draw other parts of the world under its influence - the hallmark of what it would take for this to be an Asian century?
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