Analysis
Foreign Policy
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 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 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 ...
Read More The neo-con forces behind Trump’s Twitter attacks on China
Trump's Twitter storm against ChinaOn 30 July Trump unleashed a Twitter storm against China. His 1st tweet was against China on the economy: 'I am very ...
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