Analysis
Analysis
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 damaging blind alley of US protectionism
​The damaging blind alley of US protectionismThe following article deals with the costs to the US economy of protectionism. The specific case it deals with ...
Read More China lacks innovation? Take another look
​Until recently, the big myth about China's companies was their lack of innovation. That view is now being reassessed in a series of Western studies ...
Read More A damaging confusion in Western economics books
Economics textbooks, particularly when discussing Keynes, frequently contain an elementary economic confusion - it should be made explicit this is a confusion in the textbooks ...
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 Why China won’t suffer a Western type financial crisis
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, ...
Read More Why neo-liberalism destabilised US politics
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 ...
Read More Deng Xiaoping & John Maynard Keynes
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 ...
Read More Europe’s crisis & the Euro – predicted in advance
IntroductionThe following article, published in September 1996, that is prior to the creation of the Euro, accurately predicted in advance from fundamental economic theory the ...
Read More 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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