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"So far, the trend has not affected Asia’s two giants, China and India."

It is not fair to label a trend as "Asian" when you need to exclude China and India.

Actually the first trend of delayed marriage age is now very much evidence in India. Working professionals are marrying at quite a late age - 35 for boys and 30 for girls is now very common. This is very quickly going to turn into the rejection of marriage trend mentioned in the article. So in case of India it is only a question of when not if.

Makes me wonder of the biological implications for the children to-be-born

Where are you pulling that data from? The Article makes no mention of average marrying age for Indians. Anecdotally,as a middle class Indian - I see average marrying age for Males around 27-30 and for females 25-28.

And again, Indian values are quite different from Japanese, Chinese or Thai values.

What would you label it as then? SingaJapaTaiwaVietnian?

Besides, you can always argue that the trend simply hasn't penetrated the larger entities yet, but will in the future.

East Asian would do just fine. Just because the largest land mass in the world contains lots of people does not mean we have to label them together.

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