Towards Asia’s most dangerous decade

Biggest tripwire for Asia: A fault line is emerging between the US and China as President Donald Trump's administration, with bipartisan backing, turns to confront Beijing as no other administration has done in recent memory. - AFP

“FOR sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.”

Sometimes credited to Ernest Hemingway, those taut sentences that capture a story of despair preceded by hope have been running in my mind time and time again as I contemplate what could be the still-born reality of the Age of Asia or Asian Century.