Ordinary Gweilo

Everybody else has already linked to this article about Asian blogging, so why should I be different. It reinforces the point that Friday’s piece in the SCMP was fairly hopeless, and highlights a general point that stories in large-circulation newspapers (or the SCMP) tend to be less reliable than smaller-circulation magazines.

My favourite publication is The Economist, which has an excellent (but not perfect) record of getting things right. This happens because they take the trouble to ensure that their writers understand the subjects they write about rather than just scribbling down any old rubbish that people tell them.

I am not familiar with Asian Century, but it appears to be an Australian magazine. Why would a magazine that says:

We’ve had the European century and the American century. Clearly, this will be the Asian century. The largest investors in America are not Americans – but China, Taiwan and Japan. We see an unprecedented shift of high-tech manufacturing towards Asia and, latterly, a similar shift in services and research and development. The fastest-growing technology companies in the world are Asian – Wipro, Huawei, ZTE, Samsung and Infosys. And lately, we see that the buyers of what were previously American-funded regional infrastructures – the FLAG Telecoms, the Global Crossings and so on – are Asian.

be published in Australia? Or is Australia part of Asia these days?