Asia Letter, Q3 2018: Asian Studies

This week’s discussion by Scott Foster, a research analyst and writer who has worked for American and European investment banks in Japan and Korea for more than 25 years, is about how Asia is moving ahead with trade liberalization and economic integration on its own terms – pushing back against, but not rejecting, China, while the US has excluded itself. China continues to build not only an advanced manufacturing economy, but also a world-class university system – with the US losing ground in the electric vehicle and industrial robots markets as well as in its ability to lure Asian students to American universities.