The Wealth of Asia

There are 22 million Chinese living along the periphery of China, largely in the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia. Fortune magazine called this “the most powerful economic force in Asia, second only to Japan.” And Japan has 100 million people. These overseas Chinese are (1) well educated, generally energetic, capable, and (2) wealthy as a group, controlling a large portion of economies of the countries where they live. (Encyclopedia of Illustrations #464).