Henny Sender is a managing director at BlackRock in Hong Kong and a former Financial Times correspondent.
Once an economic powerhouse, region has suffered a reversal in fortunes


An drug user lies unconscious by the side of a road in Kapurthala, Punjab, in October 2019: the use of drugs such as heroin among people has become so rampant in the northern Indian state. © AP
Henny Sender is a managing director at BlackRock in Hong Kong and a former Financial Times correspondent.