Bangladesh, March 22 -- National University of Singapore's Parang Khanna wrote a must-read book for those keen on how the rest of the 21st century might unravel. Entitled, The Future is Asian: Commerce, Conflict and Culture in the 21st Century, this 2019 publication supplies three overlapping themes with local resonance for discussions here: the growth of Asian market-power; China's infrastructural involvement through the Belt Road Initiative (BRI); and the countervailing US Asian strategy, commonly dubbed the Indo-Pacific Region (IRP). His macro-analysis constantly collides often with micro-level realities. Ultimately, the assumed Chinese world leadership globalises Asia as much as it thickens regionalism (in anchors, flows, and, well, his...