Analysis

The Hamburg G20 summit will come in a year which has seen a new stage in China’s global impact. Ever since the international financial crisis ...

SummaryThe latest US economic data confirms the US remains locked in a prolonged period of slow growth with major consequences for geopolitics and destabilising consequences ...

The following article analyses in detail the relation between economic growth and human well-being. Its focus is a comparison of China with developing and advanced ...

Prem Shankar Jha is a leading Indian journalist, columnist and former editor of the Hindustan Times, New Delhi. He has published an outstanding analysis of ...

In his speech on Asia's "Community of Common Destiny" at 2015'a Boao Forum, Chinese President Xi Jinping spelled out China's conception of "win-win" relations in Asia ...

​IntroductionThe media outside China periodically carries predictions of a China ‘hard landing’. For example George Soros grabbed headlines earlier this year by declaring of China: ...

It is frequently underestimated just how dependent world economic growth is on only a few countries. Strikingly, on the IMF’s latest projections, the majority of ...

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 ...

​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 ...

The US issuing almost simultaneously a series of economic ‘demands’ to China, and withdrawing from the nuclear arms agreement with Iran and re-imposing sanctions on ...