What is currently happening in Southeast Asia is the most important geopolitical story of the next generation but it barely gets coverage outside the region.
In a generation one will be able to go via HSR from Beijing to Singapore, and the implications that will have are MASSIVE

China, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Malaysia, parts of Burma, and parts of Vietnam will all have a trans regional integrated supply chain and HSR network that will bind people to people ties and empower even more commerce.
But yet some will tell you globalization is lying.
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Some people will sit on this app from the hills of Maryland, or Weirdoville, Virginia or somewhere in Colorado and actually say we are deglobalizing.
We are simply entering an era of Asian led globalization, one that will have immense ripples.
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I’ll still keep my African focus, but this year I will be tweeting a lot more about East and Southeast Asia in particular.
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