A true Asian century would come only if China,India and other neighbouring countries developed,late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping once said.The geapolitical and economic center of the world__(shift)to Asia and the Asia-Pacific region in the past 30 years."We are getting claser than ever__an Asian century with the developmentof China and India,and its significance goes far beyond the two countries,"Rong Ying,a senior researcher at the China Institute of International Studies,said at the World Peace Forum,an annual.