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No Reason for Asia to Be Smug

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Philip Bowring
Nov 27, 2010
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From the distance of a crisis-hit Euroland or a near static United States, Asia's economies still look good. But the closer one gets to individual countries the less appealing they seem.

For a start, de-coupling from the west and hitching the wagon to China is being exposed as a half truth at best. Year-on-year trade numbers for export-oriented Asia stil…

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