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by Parag Khanna


  Tarim basin, 32, 33, 35, 36, 59

  Tatars, 89

  technocratic governance systems, 286–313

  civil service in, 292–93

  data collection and, 295–96

  policy corrections in, 291

  utilitarianism and, 286, 298, 306

  technological innovation, 195, 196–200

  Teets, Jessica, 300–301

  Tehran-Mashhad railway, 107

  Tel Aviv, 98

  telemedicine, 202

  television, American, Asians in, 350

  Tencent, 104, 167–68, 188, 189, 193, 198, 199, 200, 209, 314, 318, 319

  Tenshin, Okakura, 351

  terrorism, 62–63, 97, 113, 116–17, 139, 220, 231, 240

  Tesla, 179

  Tetlock, Philip, 291

  Thailand, 61, 63, 89, 121, 122–23, 154

  Asian foreign labor in, 335

  in Cold War era, 53, 54

  corruption in, 161

  economic growth of, 148

  eco-tourism in, 340

  failure of democracy in, 302

  foreign investment in, 192–93

  manufacturing in, 192–93

  military junta in, 307

  privatization in, 170

  technocracy in, 308

  Thomas, Apostle, 36

  3D printing, 213

  Tibet, 34, 36, 38, 47, 52, 55, 120

  Time, 288

  Timur (Tamerlane), 41

  Timurid Dynasty, 41, 42

  Tocqueville, Alexis de, 291

  Tokyo, 47, 342

  top-down revolutions, 309–13

  tourism:

  in Asia, 213–14

  Asian, in US and Europe vs. within Asia, 339–40

  eco-, 340

  Toynbee, Arnold, 22

  trade:

  Asia-Europe axis of, 13, 14

  internal, 150–52, 156–57, 212

  intraregional, 62

  see also free trade; specific countries and subregions

  Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), 355

  Trans-Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline, 94

  Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), 126, 140, 141, 272, 273

  transportation innovation, 198

  Treasury bonds, US, Asian holdings of, 163, 164

  Treasury Department, US, 157

  Trenin, Dmitri, 83, 90

  Trudeau, Justin, 223

  Truman, Harry, 52, 287

  Trump, Donald, 213, 232

  anti-Asian policies of, 10, 152, 194, 195, 224, 225

  anti-Hispanic policies of, 272

  climate change and, 178

  election of, 3, 16, 272, 273, 283, 294, 384

  Europe and, 240

  Gulf states and, 101

  Indian Americans’ support for, 222

  Israel and, 98

  North Korea and, 142

  Pakistan and, 114

  populism of, 18, 284

  Russia and, 84

  Taiwan and, 141

  unpredictability of, 18

  US State Department gutted by, 143–44

  Tsinghua University, 232

  Tsushima, Battle of, 48

  Turkestan, 47, 117

  Turkestan Empire, 41–42

  Turkey, Republic of, 3, 49, 58, 101

  Asian investment in, 93–94

  Asianization of, 81

  China and, 93

  European focus of, 57, 60, 91–92

  European immigrants from, 253, 256

  Iran and, 94

  Muslims in, 92

  oligarchic regime in, 311

  re-Asianization of, 91–94

  Russia and, 88, 92–93

  Syrian refugees in, 63, 94, 95

  Turkic peoples, 38, 39, 67, 68, 91

  Turkmenistan, 59, 92, 106, 108, 140

  Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) natural gas pipeline, 118

  Turnbull, Malcolm, 129

  Uber, 174–75, 198

  Uighur people, 37, 42, 117

  Ukraine, 83, 85, 241

  Umayyad Caliphate, 36

  Understanding Latin America (Toro Hardy), 275

  UN Human Rights Council, 324

  Uniqlo, 345

  United Arab Emirates (UAE), 88, 96, 100, 101, 104, 312

  alternative energy programs in, 179

  bond offerings by, 165

  digital technology in, 318–19

  Indian migrants in, 334

  oil exports of, 102, 103

  technocracy in, 312

  United Kingdom, see Great Britain

  United Nations, 51

  United States:

  Afghanistan invaded by, 62

  AI research in, 199–200

  Arab world and, 100–101

  arms sales of, 16–17, 101

  Asian belief systems in, 220

  Asian capital in, 163

  Asian companies in, 227–28

  Asian economic growth as benefit to, 207

  Asian goal of reduced dependence on, 17

  Asian immigration to, see Asian Americans

  Asian investments in, 164

  Asian investments of, 110–11, 207

  Asian military presence of, 137, 138

  Asian trade deficits of, 16

  Asian trade with, 144

  Asian views of, 16–17

  Australia and, 128

  Chinese acquisition of technology companies blocked by, 195–96

  Chinese trade with, 272–73

  civil service in, 293

  coal exports of, 177

  in Cold War, see Cold War

  East Asia and, 140–41

  eroding industrial base of, 16

  ethnic diversity in, 221–22

  European capital in, 164–65

  Europe’s relations with, 240

  failed West Asian policies of, 140

  failures of democracy in, 282–85, 294

  falling standard of living in, 284–85

  global civilization as influenced by, 21, 22–23

  global governance and, 321

  income inequality in, 228, 285

  Iraq invaded by, 62

  Japan and, 136

  Latin America and, 271–72

  Muslims in, 220

  in North American regional system, 7

  North Korea and, 142–43

  oil and gas exports of, 16, 207

  outsourcing of jobs by, 16

  Pakistan and, 113–14

  Philippines and, 123–24

  populism in, 283–84

  PPP of, 10

  protectionist policies of, 241

  retail sector in, 228

  Russian sanctions by, 240–41

  shale oil revolution in, 13, 175, 272

  Southeast Asia and, 125

  South Korea and, 142–43

  South Pacific tensions of, 48

  South Pacific territories of, 48

  as superpower, 2, 14, 15, 22

  Syrian refugees in, 218

  technocracy in, 287

  utilitarian thinking as lacking in, 299

  Vietnam and, 125

  Ur, 28

  Ural Mountains, 81, 82

  urban development, 156, 190, 245–46

  utilitarianism, 286, 298, 306, 320

  Uzbekistan, 59, 72, 108, 169, 226–27

  Chinese hegemony resisted by, 20

  civil society in, 313

  economic growth of, 17, 109

  Vedas, 29

  Venezuela, 271, 274

  China and, 274–75

  venture capital (VC) industry, in Asia, 173–74

  Vienna, 40

  Vietnam, 45, 52, 60, 121, 161, 274, 275

  China and, 124–25

  in Cold War era, 56

  early history of, 31–32, 38

  economic growth in, 308

  industrialization in, 63

  South Korea and, 154

  territorial claims of, 11

  US and, 125

  Vietnamese Americans, 217

 
Vietnam War, 52, 56

  Vitasoy, 172

  Vivekananda, Swami, 220

  Vladivostok, 90

  Wadhwa, Vivek, 219

  Wahhabism, 72, 114

  Walmart, 193, 208

  warfare:

  in Asia, 75–76

  in Europe, 75

  war on terror, 113, 115, 240

  Washington Consensus, 2–3

  Water Margin, 353

  water shortages, 181

  wealth management industry, 160–61

  Weber, Max, 293

  WeChat, 314

  Wei Fenghe, 84

  West:

  arms sales to Asia by, 212

  Asia studies in, 352

  China-centric views of, 18–19

  as dependent on Asian economic growth, 206–14

  economic and social ills of, 3

  ignorance about Asia in, 17–20, 24, 76, 329

  outsourcing of manufacturing to Asia by, 62

  uncritical self-appraisal of, 351–52

  worldview of, 10–11

  West Asia, 57, 69–70, 72

  Asianization of, 9, 81

  civil society in, 313

  conflict and state failure in, 95

  crusades and, 39

  dawn of civilization in, 28

  ethnic and sectarian violence in, 256

  India and, 155

  oil and gas exports of, 9, 23, 57, 62, 152

  in post–Cold War era, 58

  re-Asianization of, 95–106

  refugees from, 95

  terrorism in, 62–63

  use of term, 6

  US involvement in, 59, 140

  Western Educated Industrial Rich Democracies (WEIRD), 357

  What Is Global History? (Conrad), 28

  WhatsApp, 320

  Wilson, Woodrow, 287

  Wolf Warrior 2 (film), 263

  women’s rights, 314–15

  Wong Kar-wai, 347

  World Bank, 109, 110, 323, 324

  Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) of, 309

  World Cup (2016), 244–45

  World Giving Index, 316

  world order:

  Asia and, 9, 12–16, 357–59

  as multipolar, 15–16, 357

  regional systems in, 13–14

  World Order (Kissinger), 357

  World Trade Organization (WTO), 2, 159, 195, 323

  worldview, Asian vs. Western, 10–11

  World War I, 2, 49

  World War II, 2, 11, 50–51

  xenophobia, of Asians, 329

  Xi Jinping, 10, 110, 111, 119, 137, 150, 161, 182, 194, 242, 249, 268, 300, 301–2, 310

  Xinjiang, 59, 117, 182, 319

  Yang Shihua, 182

  Yangtze River, 30, 31, 42

  Yellow River, 42

  Yemen, 96, 106, 107, 251

  yoga, 332

  Yom Kippur War, 101

  Yongle (Zhu Di), Ming emperor, 42–43

  Yuan Dynasty, 40

  Yuezhi people, 32

  Zambia, 263

  Zhang Weiwei, 137

  Zhao Tingyang, 137

  Zheng He, Chinese admiral, 42, 69

  Zhongguo (Middle Kingdom), 30

  Zhou Dynasty, 30, 31

  Zhou Enlai, 56

  Zoroastrianism, 30, 32, 36, 69, 70

  ZTE, 194

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