The Myth of the Asian Century | A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special

The Asian Century: Myth or Reality?

It’s time to peel away the layers of a cliché that is not just useless, but harmful. The claim that the twenty-first century will be Asian, just as the twentieth century was American, is often made but seldom examined. Yet this axiom is not just simplistic, it could also encourage the very rivalry that most threatens Asia’s security and prosperity - between the United States and China.

Asia is certainly playing a more prominent role in glo…