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Fed up with the dating game at home, a growing number of young Western men have become “passport bros”—heading to Asia or South America in search of more “traditional” relationships with women. One calls it “the ultimate life hack”. You may suspect the imbalance of power, with a poorer, compliant partner, is the real attraction.
They may not be on the scale of 20 years ago, but global economic imbalances—big current-account surpluses in Asia, big deficits in America—have returned. And once again, commentators are arguing about who’s to blame. Our Free Exchange column considers the evidence.
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