Analysis

Analysis

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 ...
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The limits of RMB internationalisation

The dollar's domination of the international monetary system, and the 'exorbitant privilege' it gives the US, to use the phrase of leading US monetary economist Barry ...
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The global significance of China’s discussion on the economy’s ‘supply side’

  A major discussion is taking place in China on the issue of its economy’s ‘supply side’. Naturally there are aspects of this which relate ...
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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 ...
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BRICS are more important for world growth than the G7

The annual BRICS summit, hosted by China in Xiamen on 3-5 September, is the second of two major events in China this year focused on ...
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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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China is right to maintain & tighten capital controls

​During 2017 China has been tightening its capital controls to prevent any export of capital from the country not required for legitimate business expansion - ...
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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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