Posts by John Ross
Why neo-liberalism destabilised US politics
Political destabilisationBoth the Anglo-Saxon coun…
Read MoreChina is right to maintain & tighten capital controls
During 2017 China has been tightening its capital controls to prevent any export of capital from the country not required for legitimate business expansion – that is China has been strongly acting against ‘capital flight’. This policy has been successful, with China’s foreign exchange reserves, already the world’s largest, rising for six months in a row – see…
Read MoreA ‘must read’ article on current China-India disputes
Prem Shankar Jha is a leading Indian journalist, columnist and former editor of the Hindustan Times, New Delhi. He has published an outstanding analysis of current dangerous China-India disputes, which centre on Bhutan, written from an Indian perspective ‘India-China: Differences, disputes and deadlock’. The whole article is a ‘must read’ but a few excerpts are…
Read MoreWhy do Western economies have hard landings but China doesn’t?
IntroductionThe media outside China periodically carries predictions of a China ‘hard landing’. For example George Soros grabbed headlines earlier this year by declaring of China: ‘A hard landing is practically unavoidable.’ Soros himself has an inaccurate record of investing in Communist Party led, and ex-Communist, countries such as Russia and China – having lost approximately…
Read MoreHow Xi Jinping’s Marxism out-thinks the West
The Hamburg G20 summit was a further stage in a pr…
Read MoreThe damaging blind alley of US protectionism
The damaging blind alley of US protectionismThe following article deals with the costs to the US economy of protectionism. The specific case it deals with is protectionism in relation to China. However the arguments apply to all strategies based on protectionism. * * * Steve Bannon Steve Bannon, President Trump’s Chief Strategist, rightly identified the…
Read MoreDeng Xiaoping & John Maynard Keynes
Introduction The international importance of China’s economy is twofold. The first is practical – the scale of China’s economic growth, its global impact, and the consequences for the improvement of the social conditions of China and the world’s population. The second is theoretical, including the potential international applicability of conclusions drawn from China’s economic policies.…
Read MoreA damaging confusion in Western economics books
Economics textbooks, particularly when discussing Keynes, frequently contain an elementary economic confusion – it should be made explicit this is a confusion in the textbooks and is not stated by Keynes. A typical example may be taken as Mankiw’s Principles of Economics, but numerous other examples could be cited as the confusion is widespread.1 This…
Read MoreThe real reason for the US South China Sea provocation
On July 12, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague issued a pre-arranged declaration supporting some Philippines claims against China in the South China Sea – despite such a declaration being clearly contrary to international law. Almost simultaneously last week the U.S. announced that it would deploy the THAAD anti-missile system in South Korea.…
Read MoreWhy China won’t suffer a Western type financial crisis
Inaccurate articles sometimes appear claiming China faces a “severe debt crisis.” Factually these are easily refuted. Changyong Rhee, the IMF’s Asia and Pacific Department director, pointed out that China’s national and local government debt is only 53% of its GDP, compared to U.S. government debt which is roughly as big as GDP, or in Japan…
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