Analysis
Foreign Policy
Why the US economy is slowing – how it will affect the trade war and China
The following article was written before the announcement of the latest US GDP figures, which showed the US economy slowing from an annualised 3.1% growth ...
Read More Trade war – bad polls & bad economic numbers pressure Trump
US share markets rose sharply on news of the announcement that Presidents Xi and Trump would meet at the G20 summit – as the Financial ...
Read More China prepares for economic ‘prolonged war’ with Trump
‘At least two other organizations have more power over [US financial] markets than the White House. They are the US Federal Reserve and the Chinese ...
Read More US attempts to block Europe benefiting from China’s ‘Belt & Road Initiative’
This is an important year for Europe as economic slowdown is likely - the IMF projects EU growth will fall from 2.1% in 2018 to ...
Read More US is losing the battle for world public opinion to China
Gallup carries out an annual international poll on approval of the leadership of major countries. This year’s poll, covering 134 countries, had a striking conclusion - ...
Read More The US is learning a trade war is truly ‘lose-lose’
The new round of high-level economic and trade consultations between China and the United States started in Beijing on 21 February morning against a background whereby ...
Read More The new shape of world politics – disorder in the West, stability in the East
The following article on 'The New Shape of World Politics - Disorder in the West, Stability in the East' analyses the reasons for the Trump ...
Read More Good 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 ...
Read More One 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 ...
Read More The real sinister relation of the US & ‘jihadism’?
Even before the recent horrific terrorist attacks in Europe, Mali and other places, the purpose of the U.S. "war on terror" as stated in words was ...
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