I regret that there was a major error in my article. I myself got mixed up between the ASEAN nations and the "tiger” nations. The ASEAN nations are a total of 10 nations and these are Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

So the first two sentences of my article (Freedom First, No.569 November 2014), should have read:

We’ve all heard about the Asian "tiger” nations. These would be countries like Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, Hongkong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and perhaps, more recently, China. I am going to put it to you etc,...(as in the remainder of the article)

I offer my sincere apologies to you and to your readers for this error. The arguments made in the article remain.