Asia is a very heavy exporter, but it consuming an increasing amount of its own production. In 2001, private consumption in emerging Asia was 25% of the U.S. but that number grew to 38% in 2008. The larger that number gets, the more that Asian economies can decouple from the U.S. economy.
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