The Making of Modern Asia

Reading of the day:

Time magazine Aug 15th

From "The Condi Doctrine"

George Marshall's commencement address at Harvard in 1947, the speech that led to the passage of the European Recovery Act, later known as the Marshall Plan. By today's standards, the speech is notable both for its brevity and its ambition. "Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine, but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos."

From "The Making of Modern Asia" by Kishore Mahbubani
"..When Asia's growth achieves a certain momentum by the end of the 21st century, Asian minds will inevitably come up with new conundrums. Why did their ancestors take so long to succeed and modernize? Why did Europe and not Asia trigger the Industrial Revolution? How could a few key capitals in Europe and America make decisions that determined Asian destinies? How could London ever have been more important than Bombay, or Paris more important than Beijing? These questions too will come...."

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Who's your asia's hero?
I have already voted for our beloved King ^ ^.