Posts by John Ross
Why the CPC’s foreign policy is crucial not only for China but for humanity
The 100th anniversary of the founding of the Commu…
Read MoreChina and US relations in Latin America
The Biden presidency will probably change some of the Trump administration’s tactics towards China. But Biden will not change the underlying anti-China policies of the US openly launched under Trump. The most probable variant is that a Biden administration will try to persuade a number of countries to enter a ‘broad anti-China front’ – instead…
Read MoreClass and Race in the US Presidential election
[The following article analysing the US Presidential election was written specifically for an audience in China. However it deals with overall trends in the US Presidential election itself and its consequences for the global situation.] US-China relations after the victory of Biden Biden’s victory in the US Presidential election took some in China by surprise.…
Read MoreThe US presidential election and its effect on US relations with China
It is too early to tell the effect on the result of the US Presidential election of Trump being infected with coronavirus. US opinion polls have shown for months Biden with a large lead over Trump and this increased slightly further following the first televised presidential debate. But what is clear is that while the…
Read MoreCovid19 and the international geopolitical situation
This article analyses the relation between China a…
Read MoreRacist killing of George Floyd ignites US rebellion
The racist police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, and the widespread protests and riots it has caused all across the US, has rightly attracted universal attention. But it is crucial to understand why this specific one among the routine killings by American cops of black Americans has ignited an unprecedented movement of protest within…
Read MoreThe coronavirus crisis’s colossal impact will only deepen further
Two huge coronavirus shocks The coronavirus is literally a life and death issue for millions of people – this is why it is totally dominating mass attention and the media. It has also simultaneously produced a gigantic global economic shock. It is impossible to separate these two issues because the coronavirus’s impact on the global…
Read MoreCoronavirus – anti-China propaganda brought a catastrophe to the West
Through tremendous sacrifices socialist China has brought the coronavirus under control – the number of new daily cases being reduced from the peak of 3,887 on 5 February to 8 on 13 March, a decline of 99.8%. In doing so the Chinese authorities performed an enormous service not only to the Chinese people but also…
Read MoreChina’s is succeeding in containing the coronavirus – can the West?
Below is the translation of a key article evaluating the current situation of the coronavirus epidemic both in China and internationally by one of China’s most followed and influential Chinese foreign policy commentators, Zhan Hao. Zhan Hao’s early article on the coronavirus threat on 29 January, ‘In response to the Wuhan epidemic,’ had 19 million…
Read MoreWhy the US economy is slowing – how it will affect the trade war and China
The following article was written before the announcement of the latest US GDP figures, which showed the US economy slowing from an annualised 3.1% growth in the 1st quarter of 2019 to 2.1% in the 2nd quarter. This new data clearly confirms the analysis in the article. The Chinese version of this article originally appeared…
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