Archive for July 2017

  ​The Financial Times today publishes a podcast by Michael Pettis – an author belonging to the ‘China will have a drastic slowdown’ school who the FT has published before. Pettis is cited in some media as a ‘China expert’ – the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he is a Senior Fellow, describes him as ‘a…

  Much analysis in the Western media very much underestimates the significance of China’s One Belt One Road (B&R). The reason for this is that it is difficult for the West to adjust to a reality whereby the main locomotives of world growth are not in the US or Europe but in Asia and developing in…

  Earlier this week I finished an article “Growth in the G7 ‘Great Stagnation’ Will be Slower than in the Great Depression“. It was for my column in Chinese at Sina Finance Opinion Leaders. By coincidence, but probably stimulated by similar developments, Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator of the Financial Times, wrote an article for that…

‘US calibrated provocation to China’ is the title of a  very informative  article by China.org.cn columnist Sajjad Malik. It outlines how Trump is ‘quietly’ but determinedly continuing his anti-China policy. It is worth quote the key passage. ‘Donald Trump might have lowered his anti-China rhetoric after the famed meeting with President Xi Jinping in Florida; however,…

  Foreign Policy magazine presents itself, and often is, a serious US source of analysis of international relations. However its dogmatic blinkers on China, its failure to face facts, lead it to sometimes publish almost comically  inaccurate analyses of China’s economy. ​A classic case comes in the recent issue in an article entitled ‘China’s Seen…

  China’s latest economic data was published today (17 July 2017). It showed strong growth on all key indicators. Compared to the same period in the previous year: GDP rose 6.9%; Industrial value added rose by 7.6%; Retail sales grew 11.0%; ​Urban fixed asset investment rose 8.6%. This is a performance exceeding any major Western…

  To many people outside China their lack of knowledge of the Chinese language might seem an insuperable obstacle to following closely intellectual life in China. To be truthful until recently it was – but it is no longer. The advances in internet translation software are now so great that provided something is online you…

  The treatment of Liu Xiaobo, who has just died, by the mainstream Western media is a classic example of its hypocrisy and real anti-China motives. Liu Xiaobo was presented by them as a ‘hero of human rights’. The reality is his views would have placed him in the West as a neo-con with a twist of…

  I am very pleased a translation into Indonesian of my article ‘G20 summit highlights new stage of China’s international “thought leadership”‘ has been published as ‘KTT G20 Menyoroti Tahap Baru ‘Kepemimpinan Pemikiran’ Internasional Tiongkok’. The translation is by Redaksi Dasar Kita, twitter ‘@DasarKita‘, to Bahasa (Indonesian) and it is published on ‘Dasar Kita’. The link is below: https://dasarkita5sila17845.wordpress.com/peng-red-jul-17-des-17/93-peng-red-91-14-jul-17/94a-john-ross-ktt-g20-menyoroti-tahap-baru-kepemimpinan-pemikiran-internasional-tiongkok/