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Asiais the world's largest and most populouscontinent,located primarily in the eastern and northernhemispheres.It covers 8.7% of theEarth's total surface area and comprises 30% of its land area. With approximately 4.3 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population. Asia has a high growth rate in themodern era.For instance, during the20th century,Asia's population nearly quadrupled. It is maritimely bounded withEuropeat the Bosphorus, and withAfricaat the Suez Canal andGuardafuiChannel.
Quotes
[edit]- There's a rise ofterrorandradicalization.There's a growing essential highway of trafficking going on of people and weapons and money fromISIS-controlled areasthroughout parts ofSoutheast Asia.And this is something that has to be stopped
- Patrick Cronin,senior director for the Asia-Pacific Security Program at the Center for a New American Security, quoted onKRCR News(February 15, 2016),"Obama welcomes Southeast Asian leaders"
- Rapidly rising temperatures are melting the glaciers that had provided the water that is the lifeblood of Central Asia, depressing the GDPs of the countries there and threatening to make large swaths of the region uninhabitable deserts by the end of this century if current trends continue, experts say.
- Paul A. Goble,"Desertification, Already Depressing Central Asian GDPs, Threatens to Make Parts of Region Uninhabitable",Window on Eurasia(July 20, 2019)
- Asia is one. TheHimalayasdivide, only to accentuate, two mighty civilisations, theChinesewith itscommunismofConfucius,and theIndianwith itsindividualismof theVedas.But not even the snowy barriers can interrupt for one moment that broad expanse of love for the Ultimate and Universal, which is the common thought-inheritance of every Asiatic race, enabling them to produce all the great religions of the world, and distinguishing them from those maritime peoples of theMediterraneanand theBaltic,who love to dwell on the Particular, and to search out the means, not the end, of life.
- Okakura Kakuzō. The Ideals of the East with Special Reference to the Art of Japan, 1903. Okakura, Kakuzō (1903). The Ideals of the East with Special Reference to the Art of Japan. London: J. Murray. p. 1.
- When will the West understand, or try to understand, the East? We Asiatics are often appalled by the curious web of facts and fancies which has been woven concerning us. We are pictured as living on the perfume of the lotus, if not on mice and cockroaches. It is either impotentfanaticismor else abject voluptuousness.Indianspiritualityhas been derided asignorance,Chinesesobrietyasstupidity,Japanesepatriotismas the result of fatalism.
- Kakuzō Okakura,The Book of Tea(1906)
- The question of whereEuropeends and Asia begins has troubled many people over the years, but here's a rule of thumb: if someone can pose as an expert on the country in question without knowledge of the relevant language, it's part of Asia.
- Brian Reynolds Myers,"Mother of All Mothers"The Atlantic(September 2004)
- On this visit toAsia,I have been concerned that while many of the countries in which I have travelled are deeply aware of the threat ofCommunistexpansion and the spectre of thethird world war,they are also apprehensive that the mounting interest of theUnited Statesin this area may be just another phase ofimperialism…I can say without equivocation: the United States firmly supports the orderly progress towards self-governmentthroughout the world. The United States has no imperialistic ambitions whatsoever in Asia or in any other part of the globe.
- Richard NixoninSri Lankaon November 28th, 1953. As quoted onvernoncorea,"US Vice President Richard Nixon’s broadcast over Radio Ceylon on 28th November 1953",August 23, 2013.
- We are seeing the power of economic freedom spreading around the world. Places such as theRepublic of Korea,Singapore,Taiwanhave vaulted into thetechnological era,barely pausing in theindustrial agealong the way. Low-tax agricultural policies inthe subcontinentmean that in some yearsIndiais now a net exporter of food. Perhaps most exciting are the winds of change that are blowing over thePeople's Republic of China,whereone-quarter of the world's populationis now gettingits first taste of economic freedom.At the same time, thegrowth of democracyhas become one of the most powerful political movements of our age. InLatin Americain the 1970s, only a third of the population lived under democratic government; today over 90 percent does. Inthe Philippines,in the Republic of Korea, free, contested, democraticelectionsare the order of the day. Throughout the world,free marketsare the model for growth. Democracy is the standard by which governments are measured.
- Ronald Reagan,Moscow State University Address,delivered 31 May 1988, Moscow, Russia
- I cannot but bring to your mind those days when the whole ofEastern Asia,fromBurmatoJapanwas united withIndiain the closest ties of friendship...
- Rabindranath Tagore,Essays, Nationalism in Japan, Atlantic Publishers & Dist, 2007 p.471, and quoted in A Look at India From the Views of Other Scholars, by Stephen Knapp[1]
- "Fool!" cried the hunchback. "You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia,' but only slightly less well known is this: 'Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.'"
He was quite cheery until the iocane powder took effect.- William Goldman,The Princess Bride(1973), Chapter Five: The Announcement. This dialogue is faithfully replicated in the 1987 film adaptation,The Princess Bride.
- Having been through hot and cold wars, hardship and tribulations, people in Asia deeply cherish the value of peace and understand that development gains do not come easily. Over the past decades, Asia has enjoyed overall stability and sustained rapid growth, making possible the Asian Miracle. When Asia fares well, the whole world benefits. Therefore, we need to continue developing and strengthening Asia, demonstrate Asia's resilience, wisdom and strength and make Asia an anchor forworld peace,a powerhouse for global growth and a new pacesetter for international cooperation.
- Xi Jinping,"Ride on the Trend of the Times and Enhance Solidarity and Cooperation to Embrace a Better Future" (16 September 2022)
External links
[edit]- "Southeast Asia’s ‘narco-state’ and ‘scam-states’ undercut authoritarian rule boasts"by David Hutt,Radio Free Asia(December 25, 2023)
- "Southeast Asia appears stuck in a history trap"by David Hutt,Radio Free Asia(December 27, 2023)