Asia contains roughly 60% of the world's population and the largest fraction of its working-age population for the next two decades. The Asia view threads each of the 100 subjects through the major Asian sub-regions: East Asia (China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong) — the manufacturing, semiconductor and consumer-electronics core; Southeast Asia (ASEAN-10) — the diversified manufacturing, services and tourism economies, with Singapore as the financial hub and Vietnam, Indonesia and Thailand as the manufacturing growth poles; South Asia (India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives) — the services-and-domestic-consumption-driven cluster, with India as the centre of gravity; Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan) — the resource and transit cluster connecting Asia to Europe via the New Eurasian Land Bridge.
The Asia view documents the major intra-Asia FTAs and trade arrangements — RCEP (the world's largest FTA by population, covering ASEAN-10 + China + Japan + South Korea + Australia + New Zealand), CPTPP (which spans Asia-Pacific and includes Japan, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, plus the Pacific Rim Americas), the ASEAN-China FTA, the ASEAN-Korea FTA, the ASEAN-Japan EPA, India's bilateral FTAs in Asia (with Singapore, ASEAN, Korea, Japan, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Bangladesh-on-development-cooperation), and the recent UAE-India CEPA (a strategic Asia-MENA bridge).
For each of the 100 subjects, the Asia view documents which Asian countries are the leaders in that field, which are the fast-growers, where the work concentrates, and how the intra-Asian skilled-migration corridors operate (notably: Singapore Employment Pass + ONE Pass for high-end professionals across all subjects; Japan's Specified Skilled Worker visa for technical and care-economy roles; South Korea's E-7 visa; Hong Kong's Top Talent Pass; Taiwan's Gold Card; UAE Golden Visa for the Gulf-bound).