What I am going to talk about Monday.

Until very recently, I had been declining the request to give a talk about Asia for various reasons. Sometimes the schedule simply didn't work out. Sometimes I had absolutely no idea about the topic. But then I felt pretty bad about refusing to go all this time and finally accepted participate in a student-organized project.

I still don't know what I will be talking about. but this is the slides (will be revised a lot, probably). I really don't think there has been any `pivot'. But the underlying conditions suggest that Asian countries will have to make some choices pretty soon. And the data suggests that keeping status quo (not really using more RMB) would be the right choice.