Analysis

Economy

Why Chinese neo-liberals are forced to falsify world history

China's economic discussions are the most advanced in the world - for anyone who follows them what passes for 'economic debate' in most of the ...
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How IMF policies helped oligarchs loot Russia – lessons for China and other countries

​ ​In 1992-98 the greatest peacetime economic collapse in a major country since at least the Industrial Revolution took place in Russia under the impact ...
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Economic 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 ...
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Why did China grow so fast?

​My article 'China's socialist model outperforms capitalism’ established factually two key conclusions for global economic and social development. First, that the fastest growing economies since ...
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Socialist 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 ...
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Why China will grow rich long before it grows old

One of the biggest myths about China's economic growth, which is the greatest in a major country in human history, is that it is primarily due ...
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Why the US remains locked in slow growth

SummaryThe latest US economic data confirms the US remains locked in a prolonged period of slow growth with major consequences for geopolitics and destabilising consequences ...
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Why 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: ...
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The 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 ...
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China lacks innovation? Take another look

​Until recently, the big myth about China's companies was their lack of innovation. That view is now being reassessed in a series of Western studies ...
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