Huge improvements were registered not only in China but also in South-East Asia and north Africa, where dependency ratios fell by 40 points.
The generation in question is the one before the fertility fall really begins to bite, which in Europe and America was the baby-boom generation that is just retiring, and in China and East Asia the generation now reaching adulthood.
On the other hand, your correspondent recently heard a senior Japanese businessman give a speech (off the record) at a conference in Nagoya in which he described China's territorial ambitions in East Asia, and particularly its hunger for resources, as being akin to Hitler's Lebensraum policy in the 1930s, stating that it must be resisted at all costs.
Foreign investment is slowing in China, as in other parts of East Asia.
Mr Obama intends to raise the matter of territorial disputes in the South China Sea at the East Asia Summit in Bali at the weekend.
Acupuncture and moxibustion are forms of traditional Chinese medicine widely practised in China and also found in regions of south-east Asia, Europe and the Americas.
It is the sort of bulge in the numbers of people in productive age groups that produced explosive growth in China and South-East Asia.
The company's plans were announced as Diageo, the biggest distiller of Scotch whisky, reported Scotch sales have been particularly strong in China and south-east Asia during the third quarter of this year.
It is the sound of the motherland for Minnan people in China and throughout South-East Asia.
Most North Korean refugees leave via China and head for nations in South East Asia, from where they can get to South Korea - which provides financial assistance and training.
There is, in other words, nothing mysterious about the effect that China is having on corporate strategy in the rest of East Asia.
The free-to-play game continues to gain steam around the globe, with an All-Star week in Shanghai, China that kicks off May 25 with the best players in five regions from around the world (North America, Europe, China, Korea and South East Asia) who were voted in by the community.
Prices are falling in China and some other parts of East Asia.
The generals have excluded the world as much as it has shunned them, and have found in China, India and South-East Asia neighbours who are more than ready to deal with them.
Now the Obama administration has declared that the Asia-Pacific region is America's new priority, and in the strategic game taking shape in South-East Asia, America is strengthening alliances in the light of China's rise.
Artemisia grows like a weed across China and South-East Asia, but the best plants are found only in certain parts of China, such as Guangxi and Hunan, which produce most of the world's supply, and in Vietnam.
Such an outcome would give China far greater power projection in the East and South China Seas -- through which flow much of East Asia's trade, including the bulk of Japan and South Korea's oil imports.
Similarly, China has recently been mending fences in South-East Asia, where its earlier reef grabs had caused widespread alarm.
She also boasted this week of an agreement to set up a fund to buy toxic debts from banks in South-East Asia, China, South Korea and Japan.
In response, Tokyo has moved to increase military spending for the first time in a decade and Mr Abe recently embarked on a diplomatic offensive in South East Asia, where several nations are also embroiled in maritime disputes with China.
For 2011, CEA sees 15% growth in North America, 23% growth in Western Europe, 15% in China, 12% in Asia, 5% in Eastern Europe, 4% in the Middle East, 10% in South America and 7% in Africa.
FORBES: CES: Global Consumer Electronics Retail Sales Seen Up 10% In 2011
An announcement is due within the next three week about where the tournament will be played, with Asia, China or the Middle East in contention.
Now, though China carries political risks arguably as big as in South-East Asia, investors have had a dramatic change of opinion about the respective potential rewards.
And the outlook in East Asia's two biggest economies, China and Japan, remains murky.
Yet a Chinese general disapproved of the meeting and bluntly told Banyan that America's alliances in North-East Asia were intended to threaten China.
Wednesday, the Chinese Academy of Sciences said the H7N9 virus probably came from migratory birds from East Asia that mixed with domestic fowl in China's Yangtze River delta region around Shanghai.
CNN: WHO reports 5 new bird flu cases in China; total now 49
The result is that what the Chinese took to be a solid, mutually beneficial relationship with the Burmese has exploded in their faces with long-term consequences for Myanmar, the balance of power in South-East Asia and the whole way that China does business with poorer countries.
ECONOMIST: Relations with Myanmar: Less thunder out of China | The
More important, China is seeking to counter what it sees as American dominance in South-East Asia.
应用推荐