Analysis

​Unfortunately some discussion in the media of how China can become a 'high income' economy fails to follow the fundamental Chinese saying ‘seek truth from ...

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 ...

  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: ...

China's latest economic dataChina's recently-published second quarter 2017 GDP data showed solid growth in regard to all key indicators. Year-on-year:• GDP rose 6.9 percent;• Industrial ...

​China is speeding up still further its ‘internet revolution.’ From the viewpoint of China’s overall economic strategy premier Li Keqiang has launched the concept of ...

​ ​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 ...

​Every day the media reports deepening political destabilisation gripping both major ‘Anglo Saxon’ countries - the US and UK.  Most important for the world, of course, ...

Inaccurate articles sometimes appear claiming China faces a "severe debt crisis." Factually these are easily refuted. Changyong Rhee, the IMF's Asia and Pacific Department director, ...

Political destabilisationBoth the Anglo-Saxon countries, the US and UK, which adopted neo-liberal Reaganite/Thatcherite policies are experiencing deep political destabilisation. Trump’s nomination as Republication Presidential candidate ...

Introduction​The international importance of China’s economy is twofold. The first is practical - the scale of China’s economic growth, its global impact, and the consequences ...