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May 24, 2009

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Two Visions Of Our Asian Future

Looking to the east for clues to the future (or the past) of the west isn’t the least bit new, but these two recent takes (both in the NYT, as it happens) offer some interesting contrasts.

First, Paul Krugman looks at Hong Kong:

Hong Kong, with its incredible cluster of tall buildings stacked up the slope of a mountain, is the way the future was supposed to look. The future