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Victor Mallet is a journalist, commentator and author with more than three decades of experience in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. He is currently Paris bureau chief for Financial Times, and has been previously worked as Asia editor and Asia news editor based in Hong Kong. He has written books on the River Ganges and on the modernisation of south-east Asia.