Parag Khanna's latest places Asia at the head of new world order

The Middle East, Africa, Europe and finally, America, are all starting to wake up and smell the curry and the durian. Choosing is difficult because, as author Parag Khanna says, Asia is so vast and varied.

Many have made the inarguable case for Asia overtaking the West. Khanna asserts: Westerners must be placed, even briefly, in the uncomfortable position of imagining what it’s like when about five billion Asians don’t care what they think and they have to prove their relevance to Asians rather than the reverse.