ABSTRACT
This chapter explores world maps for the year 2100, the last year of the 21st century and the year in which people will be standing on the doorstep of the 22nd century. The range of 100 years is more appropriate when narrating a generational drama than when describing an individual’s experiences. The inclination towards national closure intensified in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. It is precisely because people live in the age of defensive nationalism that people should attempt to go beyond short-term, parochial preoccupations with merits and demerits and towards discussions about right and wrong. Asia is a vast region encompassing countries from China, Korea, and Japan within East Asia to Southeast Asia, South Asia, Central Asia, and West Asia, including the Middle East, and stretching to Turkey.
