Analysis
Foreign Policy
Why ‘China bashing’ is a disaster for the US people
The 2016 US Presidential election witnessed the greatest destabilisation in US politics since the Great Depression. This instability and dissatisfaction is rooted in an economic ...
Read More Increasing interest in Russia in China’s economic policy
A Russian translation of my article 'China Faces Slower Western Growth than in the Great Depression' has been published under the title ''China in the New ...
Read More Why a US-China ‘Thucydides Trap’ can be avoided
Discussion of a supposed China-US ‘Thucydides trap’ is based on a sentence from ancient Greek historian Thucydides on the Athens-Sparta war of classical Greece: ...
Read More 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 ...
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 What is really behind Trump’s obsession with Russia
Two huge US geopolitical relations, with Russia and China, have dominated the early period of Trump's presidency. The strong clashes between Trump and the Congress and mass ...
Read More A ‘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 ...
Read More How Xi Jinping’s Marxism out-thinks the West
The Hamburg G20 summit was a further stage in a process that has been developing strongly during the 2017: a recognition that a new stage ...
Read More The 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 ...
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