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Blog | 01 Jun 2020
Racist killing of George Floyd ignites US rebellion
The racist police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, and the widespread ...
Blog | 19 Mar 2020
The coronavirus crisis’s colossal impact will only d...
Two huge coronavirus shocks
The coronavirus is literally a life and death ...
Blog | 25 Feb 2020
China’s is succeeding in containing the coronavirus ...
Below is the translation of a key article evaluating the current situation of...
Blog | 25 Mar 2019
Strengthening China-Russia ties symbolised by comple...
Good relations between China and Russia are the most important international ...
Blog | 24 Mar 2019
Forget Tesla, it’s China’s E-buses that ...
China's leading international role in fighting climate change was strongly il...
Analysis | Blog | China & Russia | 01 Nov 2018
The new shape of world politics – disorder in ...
The following article on 'The New Shape of World Politics - Disorder in the W...
Blog | Economic Development | 02 Jun 2018
China’s socialist ‘reform and opening up...
An earlier article in this series marking the 40th anniversary of China's 'Re...
Blog | 12 May 2018
The Relation of China’s Dream and the Human Dream
The following speech on why China's economic, geopolitical and foreig...
Blog | 04 May 2018
Trump’s tariffs against China are bad news for...
In drawing up its list of tariffs on $50 billion of Chinese produ...
Blog | 02 May 2018
China’s is the fastest growth by a major econo...
2018 marks the 40th anniversary of the beginning of China's 'refo...
Blog | 07 Mar 2018
A ‘must read’ article on current China-I...
Prem Shankar Jha is a leading Indian journalist, columnist and former ...
Blog | 05 Mar 2018
The US trade deficit is ‘Made in the USA’...
China’s tactical response to the US administration’s arbitrary pr...
Blog | 12 Feb 2018
An important paper on China’s economic reform
Elias Jabbour and Alexis Dantas, two economists in Brazil, have p...
Blog | 02 Feb 2018
New turbulence on US financial markets shows the lim...
On Friday 2 February sharp turmoil, which had been building for some time, sh...
Blog | 24 Dec 2017
Trump’s tax cut – short term gain, long ...
To assess the impact of the Trump tax cut on the US economy it is...
Blog | 19 Dec 2017
The West’s ‘new mediocre’ and the rise of China’s ec...
In a recent article ’The Arrival of the Century of Chinese Econo...
Blog | 27 Nov 2017
China’s increasing impact in Central and Easte...
The Financial Times carried on 27 November a long article on Chin...
Blog | 29 Oct 2017
China was ready to support Greece at the height of t...
In an important and revealing video former Finance Minister in Gr...
Blog | 28 Oct 2017
New US data shows that China’s economy is grow...
New US data published on Friday shows that the US economy in the year to the...
Blog | 27 Oct 2017
By 2022 China will enter the ranks of world high inc...
China at the 19th CPC Congress reaffirmed its immediate domestic...
Blog | 26 Oct 2017
Real Western politics is much more ominous than Hous...
I have two videos published analyzing why real Western politics is fa...
Blog | 19 Oct 2017
Chinese socialism’s rapid economic growth, Wes...
The present 19th Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) o...
Blog | 29 Sep 2017
China’s GDP is Growing More than 3 Times as Fa...
The latest US GDP figures, published on 28 September, confirm onc...
Blog | 27 Sep 2017
NFL protests & victory of Steve Bannon’s c...
Two events in the US in last week - the victory of Steve Bannon back...
Blog | 25 Sep 2017
German election again confirms increasing Western po...
The outcome of the 24 September German elections was dramatic itself....
Blog | 20 Sep 2017
International context of the Communist Party of Chin...
A Communist Party of China (CPC) Congress is always a major even...
Blog | 06 Sep 2017
Why BRICS will overtake the G7 economies in size
A radio interview with me on why Jim O'Neill is correct that BRICS wi...
Blog | 30 Aug 2017
Will China’s Upcoming Communist Party Congress Forma...
The once in five years upcoming Congress of China’s ruling Commun...
Blog | 30 Aug 2017
New GDP figures confirm China’s economy is gro...
The US has just published new data for the 2nd quarter of 2017. I...
Blog | 28 Aug 2017
Why China is a socialist country – China’...
Deng Xiaoping is famous for the saying 'it doesn't matter whether a cat is bl...
Blog | China & Latin America | 28 Aug 2017
Why the Latin American left, & the left in othe...
From 2000 until recently the left was in government in most Latin American co...
Blog | 27 Aug 2017
Why you should support China in one chart – Ch...
The greatest problem facing the overwhelming majority of the peop...
Blog | 26 Aug 2017
Opinion polls show a socialist is now the most popul...
An opinion poll has reaffirmed that the most p...
Blog | 25 Aug 2017
China’s state owned enterprises (SOEs) show th...
The most fundamental source of confusion for Western commentators...
Blog | 20 Aug 2017
Trump confirms Steve Bannon is only on a ‘vaca...
President Trump has sent out two tweets since Steve Bannon left t...
Blog | 19 Aug 2017
Bannon thinks he’s on vacation from the White ...
China’s foreign policy will, entirely correctly, take advantage o...
Blog | 17 Aug 2017
Polls show South Koreans want to co-operate with Nor...
An extremely striking chart of surveys of South Korean public opi...
Blog | 17 Aug 2017
Why the Western definition of human rights is an abs...
There is an international discussion about the question of ‘human ri...
Blog | 17 Aug 2017
“To me,” Bannon said, “the economic war with China i...
President Trump's Chief Strategist, Steven Bannon, has given an inter...
Blog | 16 Aug 2017
Why China’s national rejuvenation is today the...
I was asked to give a lecture to young people in China on what China'...
Blog | 14 Aug 2017
US savagery against North Korea – two outstand...
Two articles by the distinguished US historian Bruce Cumings have...
Blog | 14 Aug 2017
Why do American’s want to die so young?
American politicians relentlessly claim that theirs is the 'greatest ...
Blog | 12 Aug 2017
American’s who want to bomb North Korea –...
A scary insight into how propaganda for war is spread in the US.
Blog | 12 Aug 2017
Charlottesville – the rise of US fascism &...
The violent movement by US fascists, seen in the death and violence i...
Blog | 09 Aug 2017
Latest inaccurate forecast on China – by the E...
The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) has forecast a dramatic slo...
Blog | 09 Aug 2017
The Bomb Didn’t Beat Japan – The Soviet ...
The leading US magazine Foreign Policy published an important articl...
Blog | 07 Aug 2017
China successfully uses capital controls to rebuild ...
On 7 August the Financial Times carried an accurate front page headli...
Blog | 07 Aug 2017
China’s foreign exchange reserves rise for 6th...
China's foreign exchange reserves, already the world's largest, rose ...
Blog | 05 Aug 2017
Why the US’s 1994 deal with North Korea failed...
A very interesting and important article by Maria Ryan, Lecturer in A...
Blog | 01 Aug 2017
The East is turning green!
The Financial Times today carries an excellent article 'The East is T...
Blog | 31 Jul 2017
Financial Times inaccurate analysis of China again &...
The Financial Times today publishes a podcast by Michael Pettis - an...
Blog | 21 Jul 2017
‘A train that proclaims China’s global ambitio...
Much analysis in the Western media very much underestimates the signi...
Blog | 20 Jul 2017
Trump continues provocations against China
'US calibrated provocation to China' is the title of a very informative art...
Blog | 20 Jul 2017
‘Seven charts that show how the developed worl...
Earlier this week I finished an article "Growth in the G7 'Great Stag...
Blog | 17 Jul 2017
‘Foreign Policy’ magazine’s wildly...
Foreign Policy magazine presents itself, and often is, a serious US s...
Blog | 17 Jul 2017
China’s latest 6.9% GDP growth – ‘China ...
China's latest economic data was published today (17 July 2017). ...
Blog | 16 Jul 2017
Language is now not an overwhelming obstacle to West...
To many people outside China their lack of knowledge of the Chinese l...
Blog | 16 Jul 2017
Liu Xiaobo’s views were neo-con, colonialist a...
The treatment of Liu Xiaobo, who has just died, by the mainstream Wes...
Blog | 15 Jul 2017
Indonesian translation of my article “G20 summ...
I am very pleased a translation into Indonesian of my article 'G20 su...
Blog | 10 May 2017
China is the World’s Most Rapidly Growing Majo...
The latest international data strongly confirms that China has re...
Blog | 09 Mar 2017
Video on the importance of the BRICS summit
This is a short video published in China, spoken in English, in which...