Asian Tigers and Lion Kings (Insider's PERSPECTIVE‪)‬

China's high-speed rail system is an apt metaphor for the country's hurtling economy over the past decade: a colossal investment project, born of the state ... built for maximum velocity, and imposed ... on a public that is at once amazed and skeptical. The rail system has married foreign technology with national ambition in a network billed as the biggest and most advanced in the world, in a country whose per capita income ranks below that of Jamaica. (1) Across the Middle East and North Africa, superficial political calm has been shattered by convulsions of rage. Idealistic young protestors have toppled some of the most ruthless and well-resourced political strongmen on the planet. In sub-Saharan Africa, many are asking: Will the Arab Spring spread south? (2)