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Mexico and Asia have shared friendly relations for more than 150 years, but it might take closer economic ties - and Asia's insatiable search for new economic pastures - to finally bring the two sides of the Pacific Ocean closer together
Byline: Dr Victor Kerber
IN 1842, a Japanese fisherman named Zensuke was shipwrecked off Los Cabos, Mexico. There he lived before returning to Japan three years later a rich man. As more Asian firms find their way to this part of the world, Mexico - and Asia's business people - hope there will be more success stories like this in the years to come.
For Mexicans, the presence of Asian firms in Mexico has often raised mixed feelings. On one hand, there are great expectations toward the job opportunities that they bring, but on the other they generate concerns as to how much they understand Mexican emotions.
The Japanese settlement of manufacturers or maquiladoras along the border with the United States in the 1980s, became the groundwork of a new perception: that the Mexican economy was inexorably linked to the Asian markets. Those were the times when almighty Japan...