Posts by John Ross
Trump assesses in what order to attack other countries
Trump started his second presidency with apparently contradictory foreign policy signals. His administration was being filled with anti-China, anti-Palestinian, anti-Cuba, anti-Venezuela and anti-Iran hawks: Secretary of State Rubio, National Security Adviser Waltz, Defence Secretary Hegseth. However, before his inauguration, Trump called Xi Jinping, reporting: “It is my expectation that we will solve many problems together…
Read MoreThe news is full of headlines about ‘China’s economic collapse’ — ignore them
Once again, the Western media Establishment, and sadly some on the left, are talking up an impending economic disaster in China, when the truth is quite the opposite, shows John Ross IN THE last four years, covering the period of the Covid pandemic, China’s economy has grown two-and-a-half times as fast as the US, 15…
Read MoreMy Thoughts on Receiving China’s Top Book Award for Foreign Writers on China
In June I was one of the recipients of the Special Book Award of China. The official description of which is: “The Special Book Award of China, sponsored by the National Press and Publication Administration of the People’s Republic of China, is the highest national award given to those who have made outstanding contributions in…
Read MoreNATO expansion destabilised Europe, further expansion would destabilise the world
On 11-12 July NATO is holding its summit in Vilnius. Top of the agenda is NATO expansion: Sweden joining the alliance, NATO membership for Ukraine, the proposal to set up a liaison office in Tokyo. This expansion is a deeply dangerous policy, with globally destabilising consequences, which must be strongly opposed. As US experts predicted…
Read MoreThe first international issue of Wenhua Zongheng is a landmark event for the global left
By John Ross Wenhua Zongheng is a newly launched international publication bringing together articles originally produced in the mainland China magazine of the same name in Chinese. It is jointly published in English, Spanish and Portuguese, by Wenhua Zongheng, the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research, and Dongsheng – which produces the newsletter News on China.…
Read MoreThe U.S. murdered Germany, Japan and the Asian Tigers – now it tries to persuade China to commit suicide
China has not only set a goal of short-term economic acceleration in 2023 compared to the pandemic period but also a clear strategic economic target for 2035. At the 20th Party Congress the latter was stated as reaching the level of a “medium-developed country by 2035”. Slightly earlier, in 2020’s discussion around the 14th Five…
Read MoreConsequences and lessons of the new U.S. bank collapses
This article was originally published in Chinese at Guancha.cn. The collapse in rapid succession of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, the second and third largest bank collapses in U.S. history, fully confirms the extremely damaging character of the U.S. stimulus policies which were launched to attempt to deal with the economic consequences of the…
Read MoreQuelles sont les forces qui poussent les USA à une agression militaire internationale croissante?
John Ross (https://mronline.org/author/johnross/ )…
Read MoreKey lessons from the failure of the US and success of China’s economic stimulus programmes
Introduction It is well known that China will cont…
Read MoreThree years of fighting Covid – China has achieved a miracle compared to the West
In the three years of fighting Covid China has far…
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