Why Asia Matters to Kentucky Asia is an enormous and diverse world, and it is experiencing birth pains all over

again. The Arab Spring profoundly affected it, triggering democratic movements across the Near East. China and its Southeast Asia block, ASEAN, assertions over control the world's most vital shipping lane and the naval path through Australia and Asia into the Pacific. A pseudo-civil government rules in one nation, Burma, and its neighbor Thailand has rocked to pieces by internal riots and an Islamic separatist battle waging in its South. The Philippines also battles insurgents in Moros, Mindanao and in other islands. Indonesia, on the tide of the tsunami disaster that destroyed Aceh, crushed its last full-fledged insurgence. In the Yellow Sea, China, Russia and Japan also struggle for control. So what does all that have to say about Kentucky. First, as most individuals in Lexington and Georgetown know, Toyota, one of Kentucky's largest employers, is part of an Asian company. Lexmark as a ____ market share in Asia. Our governor recently returned from a trade trip to India. Don't forget there are more than _____ students in Kentucky institutes of higher education as well as _____ individuals of Asian descent in the state. Being that Kentucky has a strong, influent