{"id":259408,"date":"2023-09-09T19:30:38","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T14:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=259408"},"modified":"2023-09-09T19:30:38","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T14:00:38","slug":"continental-shift-why-its-not-quite-asias-century-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/continental-shift-why-its-not-quite-asias-century-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Continental Shift? Why it\u2019s not quite Asia\u2019s century yet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/b><\/strong>: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cContinental Shift? Why it\u2019s not quite Asia\u2019s century yet<\/b><\/strong>\u201d\u00a0<\/b><\/strong>published\u00a0in\u00a0The Times of India <\/b><\/strong>on\u00a09<\/b><\/strong>th<\/b><\/sup><\/strong>\u00a0September 2023<\/b><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus: <\/b><\/strong>GS 2 \u2013 International Relations – Bilateral, Regional and Global Groupings and Agreements involving India and\/or affecting India\u2019s interests<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n

Relevance: <\/b><\/strong>About the term Asian century<\/p>\n

News: <\/b><\/strong>During the recent visit to Indonesia for the Asean-India and East Asia summits, PM Modi described the 21st century as the ‘Asian century.’<\/p>\n

What is the significance of the term Asian century?<\/b><\/strong><\/h2>\n

The term gained popularity in the 1990s when East Asia was seen as a model for rapid economic growth.<\/p>\n

Today, Asia leads the world in economic growth and has the largest middle class. Three of the world’s top five economies are also located in Asia.<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n

Moreover, the term goes beyond economic competitiveness, as it also includes cultural richness<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0because of the presence<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0of three of the world’s oldest river valley civilizations.<\/p>\n

However, some don\u2019t agree with this idea and argue that Asia is not a natural bloc but rather a creation of European geographers.<\/p>\n

They argue that there is lack of overlap between<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0the economy of central Asian republics and East Asian economy. They also argue that Asia lacks the hegemonic power that <\/b><\/strong>the United States had in the 20th century.<\/p>\n

Therefore, it is not wise to portray 21st century as the ‘Asian century\u2019.<\/p>\n

Must Read: <\/b><\/strong>India\u2019s dilemmas in an Asian century<\/b><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and <\/b><\/strong>What is Asian centrality?<\/b><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n

What is the way ahead?<\/b><\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Indian Prime Minister has called for the need to build a rules-based order in Asia, which is seen as a challenge to China’s growing influence.<\/p>\n

China also faces significant resistance to its leadership in Asia, turning the continent into a place of competing ideas.<\/p>\n

Therefore, even though Asia stands out as the world’s most economically active region with strong trade connections, the idea of the ‘Asian century’ still remains to be fully achieved.<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Source: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cContinental Shift? Why it\u2019s not quite Asia\u2019s century yet\u201d\u00a0published\u00a0in\u00a0The Times of India on\u00a09th\u00a0September 2023. Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 International Relations – Bilateral, Regional and Global Groupings and Agreements involving India and\/or affecting India\u2019s interests Relevance: About the term Asian century News: During the recent visit to Indonesia for… Continue reading Continental Shift? Why it\u2019s not quite Asia\u2019s century yet<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10309,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10496],"class_list":["post-259408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10309"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}