OPINION

Will the Asian century meet an early end?

News, Yuriko Koike, Published on 27/09/2015

» The British Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm once called the epoch stretching from the French Revolution of 1789 to World War I’s outbreak in 1914 as the “long 19th century”. A little over a decade ago, people began to speculate about an emerging “Asian century”, driven by an unstoppable China and enabled by America’s supposed inevitable decline.