The Return of Asia & the Multipolar World
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Summary
The idea that Europe and America made the modern world runs against the record: Asia was the centre of global wealth for millennia.
The talk traces how Asia held that position, why Europe and America overtook it, and where the comeback begins.
The misconception it corrects is that the West invents while Asia only adapts, which does not match the evidence.
Key points
Two hundred years is short at this scale
Western primacy has lasted a brief period against the span in which Asia led.
Industrialisation is the hinge
Not a cultural or cognitive difference, but a technology that arrived in one place first.
The return has more than one driver
Population, education, manufacturing and capital are all moving together, which is why the trend is hard to stop.
Thailand has to choose its place in it
Asia rising does not lift every country in it equally or automatically.