The Asian century is dawning. The world's economic center is shifting from West to East, reshaping geopolitics. While not all Asian countries are successfully moving from industrialization to digitalization, in Southeast Asia, China, India and elsewhere, new technologies including the widespread...

Labor mobility or professional service mobility, in particular, has become increasingly important. Its prevalence (in terms of volume of jobs) in trade in services and its economic contribution to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and other regional trading blocs is increasing....

1. Introduction -- 2. Capitalism in Globalizing Asia -- 3. Global Value Chains, Divergence, and Regionalization -- 4. Mobile Telecom Global Value Chains -- 5. East Asia in Mobile Phone Trade Networks -- 6. Divergent Paths of GVC Integration and Upgrading in the East Asian Mobile Telecom Industry...