Asia is booming – but who is telling the world about this? On television and the internet, in newspapers and magazines, at conferences and forums, it is by and large the same faces – western ones. I am not talking about the token Asians hired to read the news on the global television channels. I mean the real thinkers – the “thought leaders”, as business-speak has it.

Go into a bookshop across the region and who is telling us how to decode politics or profit from Asia’s – especially China’s – growth? Who staffs the main regional business papers and magazines? Who heads up the leading Asia business forums?