Posts by John Ross
Deng 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 MoreWhy neo-liberalism destabilised US politics
Political destabilisationBoth the Anglo-Saxon coun…
Read MoreThe Relation of China’s Dream and the Human Dream
The following speech on why China’s economic, geopolitical and foreign policy thinking is the world’s most advanced, and on certain features of Chinese classical culture and its relation to the modern global order, was given by me to the 7th World Forum on China Studies in Shanghai. First, thank you very much for the…
Read MoreThe US is attempting to impose an international ‘economic dictatorship’
The US issuing almost simultaneously a series of economic ‘demands’ to China, and withdrawing from the nuclear arms agreement with Iran and re-imposing sanctions on that country, has now led to very wide layers understanding that actions by the US administration are at present attempting to de facto impose an international ‘economic dictatorship’.This is a…
Read MoreTrump’s tariffs against China are bad news for US farmers, companies and workers!
In drawing up its list of tariffs on $50 billion of Chinese products the Trump administration carefully tried to avoid one of the chief bad effects these tariffs will have on the US population by excluding many consumer goods from the list. This was clear proof the administration feared the hostile reaction from US…
Read MoreChina’s is the fastest growth by a major economy in human history – 40 years of China’s ‘reform and opening up’.
2018 marks the 40th anniversary of the beginning of China’s ‘reform and opening up’. This has produced in China the greatest economic achievement in human history – that statement is not meant as an exaggeration or as polite words, it is a simple statement of objective fact. The ‘Western media’ is forced to attempt…
Read MoreA “nova mediocridade” do Ocidente e a ascensão econômica da China
No recente artigo “A chegada do século da economia chinesa”[1], Justin Yifu Lin, ex-economista-chefe do Banco Mundial, argumentou que o centro mundial da teoria econômica passaria para a China. “Eu também fiz uma previsão. No século 21, é bem possível que muitos mestres em Economia despontem a partir do estudo da economia chinesa. A importância…
Read MoreA ‘must read’ article on current China-India disputes by a leading Indian analyst
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…
Read MoreThe US trade deficit is ‘Made in the USA’ not ‘Made in China’
China’s tactical response to the US administration’s arbitrary proposed tariffs against China, as well as unjustified US official and unofficial sanctions against Chinese companies such as ZTE and Huawei, must take many factors into account. Some of these can be known only to those directly involved in negotiations. Therefore, the following analysis is not…
Read MoreAn important paper on China’s economic reform
Elias Jabbour and Alexis Dantas, two economists in Brazil, have published an important study of China’s economic reform ‘The political economy of reforms and the present Chinese transition’. In general this refutes many myths on China’s economic reform in analysing the relation of the state and the market in China’s ‘socialist market economy’. It is…
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