It's no longer just East Asia, as it was in 1977, it's worldwide crisis, plus Iraq, plus the consequences of debt, plus the growing waste and consequent cost of energy plus the deficit on the part if the main economic and military power on the planet.. ..…

“He was supposed to be in a private, restricted area of the hospital but these two men had apparently lied to the nurses on duty in order to get access to him,” according to the statement, which wase made available to Asia Sentinel. . ..…

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But this Asia, this non- Europe, is no more or less rising now or in 1942 when Japan overran European Asia, or in the period when growth of Asian economies out-ran the world by long way.. ... Turkey and Iran, they seldom count as Asian at all in most considerations of Asia. ..…