Mongolia has even less of an economy than SE Asian countries for god's sake though it's in northeast Asia!

蒙古经济比东南亚还要差呢，它是总所周知的东北亚国家。

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Yunnan is the place where the floras of East Asia, SE Asia and East Himalayas meet, and the only land passage between the floras of Eu-Asian Continent and the equator ;

云南既是东亚、东南亚和东喜马拉雅等植物区系的交汇区，又是欧亚大陆植物区系与赤道热带的唯一陆地交流通道；

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Indeed these SE Asian nations are now ripe to take the high ground in world economics with low debt, high investment power and now knowing that innovation is the golden key to capturing economic supremacy.

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