ISAS Briefs

The economic growth of China and India turn Asia as the epicenter of the global economy. It is predicted that this growth will continue in the near future as China is set to become the world's second largest economy and India is poised to take the fourth place by 2030, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit. A British Broadcasting Corporation on-line survey in April 2006 predicted that China will overtake the United States- economy by 2026.