Fazle Abed who i personally learnt most from died in Dec 2019, and among US academics Ezogel's last book was wonderful when he debriefed us on his east coast tour. Sadly he was to die in 2021
(Norman Nacrae) My father's tors of Asia for Economist readers began in 1962 when president Kenenedy approved the ideas that supervilage and supercity maps offered multi win market exchanges that Asia needed to rise as well as integrate its two thirds of beings with rest of human race
Historically development seems to have mapped this route
Japan
Korea
Taiwan
Hong Kong
Sinagpaore
All of China
Rest of SE Asian Continent
Rest of Asean
Bangladesh
India
Pakistan
Rest of south asian continent
saudi
uae
israel
of course if we go up to the arctic circle we have russia
mongolia
landlocked central asia parts of old ussr
Asian neighbors of European Union from eg Belarus/Ukraine south to Turkey
There are some other islands in Asia Pacific (with huge ocean estates but almost no land resources)
Have i left anywhere out