Source:
European Leadership Network
Original post date:
3 September 2014
In most of the international relations literature we read today about the Asia of the twenty-first century, we are told time and time again that this region, my region, is increasingly becoming the centre of global geo-economic gravity. And the literature is right. Whatever the economic measure - proportion of global GDP, trade, foreign direct investment or global capital flows - Asia has moved from the margins to the centre of the global economy. The truth is the health of the 21st century global economy will largely be determined by, and driven by, the emerging mega-economies of Asia.