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From the New York Times: The world will be a different place in 30 or 40 years, with Asia at the forefront, said Daljit Singh, a visiting senior fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore. The new grouping is a response to this change. “Its significance is that it symbolizes the Asian […]
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: It didn’t take long for Wang Xiaofeng to realise that he was not cut out for the courts. Now one of China’s best-known bloggers, when he was fresh out of law school he only lasted a week in the Beijing prosecutor’s office. “If I had stayed, […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times: China is poised to announce its economy is significantly larger than the government’s official measure following a national economic census which found a large underestimation of the country’s thriving and largely private services sector. The revision is also expected to show the economy is less reliant on investment and more driven […]
Read MoreFrom a Los Angeles Times editorial: There’s something about the international spotlight that spurs Chinese officials to admit wrongdoing, raising doubts about whether they would have done anything without the glare. Last month, Beijing waited until 10 days after the incident to tell the public about a factory explosion that dumped 100 tons of benzene […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: Today, the presence in Kuala Lumpur of a rising China and resurgent India and the absence of the United States, which has played the role of an Asia-Pacific hegemon since the end of the World War II, suggest we are on the cusp of a new era. The inaugural East Asian summit […]
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