Posts by John Ross
Why China’s social achievements are even greater than its economic ones
Attempts are sometimes made to claim that China’s…
Read MoreWhy Chinese neo-liberals are forced to falsify world history
China’s economic discussions are the most ad…
Read MoreEconomic logic behind Trump’s foreign policy – the key countries are Germany &China
This article was published in Chinese before the recent summit between Chancellor Merkel and President Trump – which strongly confirmed its analysis.The first steps by Trump as US President confirmed that he will pursue an anti-China policy but also that he will use different tactics to Obama and Clinton. Simultaneously Trump has launched a serious…
Read MoreSocialist policies can help famine-stricken countries
An immense human catastrophe is threatening in parts of Africa and in Yemen. As the Washington Post wrote in February: “The world is in the grip of an astonishing and acute crisis: More than 20 million people in South Sudan, Somalia, northern Nigeria and Yemen face starvation in the next six months, according to the United…
Read MoreA Copernican Revolution in Western economics & China’s supply side reform
Every 4th May is National Youth Day in China. In 2…
Read MoreGood China-Russia relations are the guarantee of world peace
President Xi Jinping’s visit to Moscow on the way to the G20 summit draws attention to a key fact of present day geopolitics: that good relations of China and Russia are the most important international guarantee of world peace. Because of the importance of this point it is necessary to understand in straightforward terms, without…
Read MoreOne year on, impact of Xi’s agenda-setting Davos speech still felt
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s speech to the Davos World Economic Forum one year ago, on January 17, 2017, decisively shaped international discussion – the US magazine Newsweek summarized its impact as being that China was now seen as: “the linchpin of global economic stability.” Ian Bremmer, head of the Eurasia Group, the most influential Western…
Read MoreWhy China has made the world’s greatest contribution to increasing human rights
The U.S. Congress has debated expressing its concern over the issue of ‘human rights’ in China – an example can be found in the US House of Representatives on 28 May 2014.This makes it appropriate to make a comparison of the real records of the U.S. and China on human rights.This is a vital issue as human…
Read MoreThe ‘Anglo-Saxon’ political crisis – from Reagan & Thatcher to Trump & Brexit
Every day the media reports deepening political destabilisation gripping both major ‘Anglo Saxon’ countries – the US and UK. Most important for the world, of course, is US political instability where almost daily crises hit the Trump administration – resignation of the President’s Chief of Staff, sacking of the head of the FBI, public attacks by…
Read MoreHow IMF policies helped oligarchs loot Russia – lessons for China and other countries
In 1992-98 the greatest peacetime economic coll…
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