Citações de Deli: duas perguntas cruciais

But there are at least two questions that are key to Asia’s future that we do not generally ask.
First, for all the talk about the rise of Asia in the “knowledge age” that we live in, are these countries ultimately constrained in their potential to be great nations by their lack of top-flight systems of higher education? And second, is the Asian region any more than a series of nation-states obsessed with guarding their sovereignty — and do they have the ability to interact peacefully and constructively, much as the European Union is trying to do, to pool their individual strengths for the betterment of their region and the world beyond it? (Jeffrey Garten, no NYT)