Analysis

Foreign Policy

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 ...
Read More

An economist’s Mein Kampf

This article, published in October 1991, accurately predicted that 'shock therapy' recommended for Russia by Western economic institutions, and supported by 95% of Western economists, ...
Read More

Why the US not China threatens world peace

​A concerted attempt is being made by the US to raise tensions in the region surrounding China - in the South China Sea and elsewhere. ...
Read More

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

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