"For more than half a century, East Asia has been the most dynamic and resilient economic region in the world. Following Japan's success in its post-World War Two reconstruction and industrialisation, a good number of East Asian economies flourished. The latest and the most extraordinary case is...

China's engagement in the so-called international fragmentation of production - namely "cross-border dispersion of component production/assembly within vertically integrated manufacturing industries" - has become an increasingly important form of its economic integration into the regional as...