Podcast highlights:

08:35 It takes somebody to break the mould and push the boundaries - British pop singer Jessie J winning a talent competition in China equivalent to American Idol, the Beatles breaking into the US, Jack Ma taking his Chinese company Alibaba to The West

32:20 If your most innovative people are focussed on trying to find better ways to connect, you're building the future - when you have a generation of people growing up where the default is to build connectivity and bridges, then you have the beginning of a new era

45:10 The North and South Korean meeting is the image that would define the Asian Century - the point at which people's mindset shifted far enough that they thought the old way of looking at this old region was changed so far that it was broken

Podcast notes:

00:05 ATP640 - Asia Matters with Graham Brown

00:20 North Korean president Kim Jong-Un stepped across the parallel and shook hands with South Korean president Moon Jae-In - An image that defines the Asian Century about building bridges and not walls

03:55 The historic summit between the two Koreas - a long road ahead and it may fail but what if it worked? Its similar implications and parallels with the fall of the Berlin Wall - the beginning of globalisation

07:05 Growing up in an era where nuclear war was a real threat before the fall of the Berlin Wall blew away the old ways of thinking and shifted to looking at "The East" as opportunity

08:35 It takes somebody to break the mould and push the boundaries - British pop singer Jessie J winning a talent competition in China equivalent to American Idol, the Beatles breaking into the US, Jack Ma taking his Chinese company Alibaba to The West

14:50 Nobody cuts a red ribbon to open the Asian Century - defining history as a series of events like the Industrial Revolution, digital age, the British Century or American Century

20:30 Nobody ever names these eras when they're happening, like the Reformation - In Germany, Martin Luther nailed his "95 points" on the door of a Catholic church who sold repentance, made a lot of money from this and exercised a lot of power, kicking off ideas like self-development, that you could make your life better

27:05 What will the global media industry look like for kids growing up - what they think of as a music, movie industry is gonna be very different to what we understand

32:20 If your most innovative people are focussed on trying to find better ways to connect, you're building the future - when you have a generation of people growing up where the default is to build connectivity and bridges, then you have the beginning of a new era

36:40 Media conditioning us with wall-building narratives like the case of Fox News reinforcing its narrative towards Iran. But young people are malleable enough that these narratives don't stick - they will see an Asian region which builds bridges emotionally and physically

41:35 America exercised its soft power in 1915 like what China is doing right now in 2018

43:00 Who brokered the meeting between the two Koreas? Chinese leader Xi Jinping - China, not USA, is brokering power in Asia, politically reinforcing what is happening economically in the world

45:10 The North and South Korean meeting is the image that would define the Asian Century - the point at which people's mindset shifted far enough that they thought the old way of looking at this old region was changed so far that it was broken