Asia’s Rising Economic Stars Lose Luster on China’s Slowdown

For years after the 2008 financial crisis, Asia’s rapidly expanding economies propped up global growth, with China clocking a pace of more than 9 percent, pulling along its neighbors.

Now, China’s continuing slowdown is dragging them too, exposing weaknesses across the region, from Indonesian borrowing needs to record Korean household debt and the bureaucratic and corruption hurdles in the Philippines that hold back its infrastructure projects.