Asianisation of Asia: Chinese-Iranian Relations in Perspective

Systemic shift, in which the weight of global economy has shifted away from Euro-Atlantic eastwards, is increasingly underlined by what referred to here as ‘Asianisation Asia'. Asianisation a process Asia's diverse regions steadily converge around shared economic agendas. Japan, followed so-called ‘Asian Tigers’, were pioneers Asian process, began earnest mid-1960s. China and India, drivers pre-modern world economy, are emulating strategies early Asianisers this century building parallel pan-Asian relations their own. Nowhere more evident, indeed significant, than relation Iran, par excellence. Their arguably critical infused with legacy collective memories ancient Silk Road had shaped for centuries before rise European power.