On the Future Is Asian

As interesting as this is, it isn’t the most novel work published about Asia in the last few years. Khanna finds that “Asian societies” (defined from Turkey in West Asia to Japan in the East) are best defined by economic liberalism, social conservatism, and technocratic governance. Khanna spends some time here looking at Asian history, politics, economics, and Asia’s relationship with other parts of the world. The most interesting thing to me was Khanna’s discussion of technocracy in Singapore—that was some good stuff. The rest of the text, on the other hand, felt thoroughly familiar and a bit too positive in the cases of Modi, Erdogan, etc.