‘Crazy Rich Asians’ and the new face of the 1 per cent
Financial Times |
A view of the futuristic Marina Bay Sands resort in Singapore, a potent visual symbol of the city-state's wealth © Kevin WY Lee
by James Crabtree
Although they may be charmed by the romance of Crazy Rich Asians, western cinema-goers are ultimately unlikely to be comfortable with the geopolitical rebalancing upon which this rising Asian self-assurance is based, argues Parag Khanna, Singapore-based author of The Future is Asian, a forthcoming book. “This is a huge change, as it dawns on the west that Asians used to make things for us and now we are making things for them,” he says.
