Analysis

Analysis

The American Way leads to Americans dying early

American politicians remorselessly claim that theirs is the 'greatest country' and the 'American way' is the best way. But if so it poses a puzzling ...
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China is the greatest economic growth in human history

Despite increasing media reporting on China’s economy there is still a fundamental underestimation of the sheer scale of China’s economic growth. It is not generally ...
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A Copernican Revolution in Western economics & China’s supply side reform

Every 4th May is National Youth Day in China. In 2016 I was invited on that day to deliver a lecture to Chinese young economists on how developments in ...
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Deng Xiaoping – the world’s greatest economist

​August 22, 2014 was the 110th anniversary of the birth of Deng Xiaoping. Numerous achievements would ensure Deng Xiaoping a major position in China's history ...
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What China achieving ‘moderate prosperity’ means for itself & the world

China's key annual "two sessions," the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, reaffirmed China's strategic medium term goal to create a "moderately prosperous ...
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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. ...
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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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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 economic reform succeeded in China & will fail in Russia and Eastern Europe

This article was written in April 1992 and originally published in Russian in September 1992 in Voprosy Economiki (Questions of Economics) in September 1992. The ...
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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 ...
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