Financial Times inaccurate analysis of China again – by Michael Pettis

  ​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…

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‘A train that proclaims China’s global ambition’ – strengths and weaknesses of Philip Stephens Financial Times analysis of China’s ‘One Belt One Road’

  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…

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‘Seven charts that show how the developed world is losing its edge’ – a comment on Martin Wolf’s analysis

  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…

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Trump continues provocations against China

‘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,…

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China’s latest 6.9% GDP growth – ‘China hard landing’ story bites dust for 10,000th time in last 30 years

  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…

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Indonesian translation of my article “G20 summit highlights new stage of China’s international ‘thought leadership’

  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/

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