Abstract
ASIA IN 2013 WAS ABOVE ALL A YEAR OF IRONIES, a year of prosperity and growth accompanied by nationalist tensions and rising dissatisfaction. It was also a rebuilding year following a year of major transitions. Characteristically the target of great natural disasters, during the year Typhoon Haiyan afflicted 6,000 fatalities on the Philippines while Sumatra’s swidden fire haze (the biggest in 15 years) befogged Singapore and Malaysia. Yet, amid all these disconcerting changes, Asians could take comfort in certain continuities.
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