Will ASEAN take China’s place as the workshop of the world?

We see little prospect of ASEAN transforming itself into the kind of single market and production base that would allow it to challenge China as the manufacturing workshop of the world. Nevertheless, parts of South East Asia should still perform strongly over the next few years. 

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