FUTURE FORTUNES

I have just returned from an intense three-week tour of Southeast Asia and I was fascinated by the incredible insight in James Fallows’ article (“Boom Times in Bangkok,” April 10). It should be required reading for Warren Christopher and others running the State Department. Asia is indeed in the dynamic phase of its historical evolution. Given its boiling, restless entrepreneurial energy, the next century will indeed be an Asian one.

JAY P. COOPER

Newport Beach