Michael Auslin worries the gains of Asia will be lost in war

Lee Park Kong
  The conventional wisdom is that Asia s incredible prosperity growth will continue and Asia is the next super region of the globe but some writers are second guessing this approach and thinking. Author Michael Auslin's "The End Of The Asian Century" looks at the instability and fractured mistrustful region that threatens much of the economic gains Asia has witnessed in the past three decades and an explosive possibility of major conflict is always possible. Auslin study's many countries and brings up topics as the demographic issue in japan where robot love is preferred to woman love and the rise of unmarried women in their thirties. On the other spectrum Indian and Indonesia cannot stem their populations and the taxing effect on natural resources has already been felt in these to nations.

Auslin is amazed at the the craziness of cows,rickshaws,scooters,mini-trucks,micro buses,ox-drawn carts, horse and buggies,bicycles,cars, and joggers on the streets of major Indian cities. Throughout the book Auslin wonders when China will be on the tipping point as the expectations of migrant to cities in improving their life cannot be met and whether japan's economy can rebound from two decades of stagnation and the failing cortopcracy within it competing in a global world. few Western writers know Asia to the extent of this author and he brings interesting insights from an outside perspective in this dynamic but volatile world where many nations fear China's continuing growth and see it as a threat instead of important trading partner. the risk of war in Asia always lingers and seems to point to two countries as starting a powder keg in the region and Auslin goes through North Korea and Taiwanese tensions and the dangers these two countries pose in their independent thinking and actions. Auslin goes through America own rethinking of our relations in the region but says that we are stuck in Asia because we import so much junk from Wal-Mart and Walgreens and that we are to dumb to build and make things for ourselves in America.