Starting point..

The article that put me onto my India/China/"The West" economic topic was "Last Days of the West" by Kishore Mahbubani -- scanned copy seen here.

This photograph was above the article:

The image of Indian people & ATMs, the globalized world; it's a striking image for an article about the diminishing "West". Most of the visual ideas running around in my mind have been more orientated to a symbolic or artistic way of representing the countries/economic powers etc. so looking at a simple photograph is a good way of broadening my perspective on what is available for me to work with/draw inspiration from/do myself.