New Asia is restructuring global trade

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If readers can (and are prepared to) make it through Transport Intelligence’s slightly over-the-top registration page, here’s a very useful round-up of the new trade patterns emerging as Asia transforms itself economically. With a middle class that is forecast to be 1.75bn-strong by 2020, demographics underpin what is shaping up to be the most dramatic shift in global power since the end of WWII.