@Alon @DiegoBeghin @MisuseCase @kentwillard Sure. There's not anything so surprising there I think. In growth terms there has been convergence towards in the East, the faster growth of still developing economies. But they are far from converged, and the social stresses of the way they are converging (or just the way the whole is arranged, as the west similarly suffers) is leading to political instability rather than the stability we imagine with convergence.