OPINION: No Reason for Asia to Be Smug - Philip Bowring

Asia Sentinel, 26 Nov 2010From 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 still look good with