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November 10, 2009

Asia Will Lead, Will the West Join?

Kishore Mahubani, Christian Science Monitor

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Singapore - For many, the fall of the Berlin Wall marked the so-called "end of history" and the final victory of the West.

This week, Barack Obama, the first black president of the once-triumphant superpower in that cold-war contest, heads to Beijing to meet America's bankers – the Chinese Communist government – an unfeasible prospect at the time of the wall's fall 20 years ago. Surely, this twist of the times is a good point of departure for taking stock of just where history has gone during these past two decades.

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