I learn something new everyday Evelyn Goh has written a really fascinating article for Foreign Policy in Focus on the engagement by the Chinese with South East Asia. This bit brought me up a bit. The scale is so huge.

"If the ongoing negotiations for the ASEAN-China Free Trade Area (ACFTA) are successful, by 2010 the world's largest free trade zone will be created with 1.7 billion people, a total GDP of $2 trillion, and total trade volume exceeding $1.2 trillion."  ¶ 7:51 pm