REI Wealth Monthly Issue 17 | Page 51

OVERVIEW OF ASIA FOR GLOBAL PROPERTY INVESTORS (PART1) ZIV MAGEN ince 2008 - and in some cases, by a select group of wise, clairvoyant-like economists and historians even earlier - these current times were, and still are, increasingly being labelled as “The Asian Century” - and for good reason. With the declining financial influence and power of the USA, the emergence of China as the world’s great new power, and the woeful set of maturity and cohesion hardships the European Union has been plagued with since its inception, it’s easy to see why.