Edward Cody: China’s Quiet Rise Casts Wide Shadow

From The Washington Post:

Bespectacled and mild-mannered, Leong Kai Hin is every bit the professor. He teaches economics at a Kuala Lumpur University and seems most at home behind his computer grazing for statistics.

But Leong is off on a new project that, according to his assessment, says a lot about where East Asia is headed. In partnership with a mainland Chinese friend, Leong is organizing a strawberry importing business, hoping to cash in on Malaysia’s hunger for juicy berries and the ability of Chinese farmers to grow them cheaply.

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