Analysis
Analysis
Solar power illustrates China’s manufacturing future
The decisive global role being played by China in leading the way in the development of renewable energy is now being recognised in the Western ...
Read More To become a high income economy China needs to study facts not myths
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 ...
Read More Why ‘China bashing’ is a disaster for the US people
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 ...
Read More Why a US-China ‘Thucydides Trap’ can be avoided
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: ...
Read More China’s GDP data destroys ‘hard landing’ myth again
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 ...
Read More Reality & myth of the US ‘internet revolution’
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 ...
Read More How IMF policies helped oligarchs loot Russia – lessons for China and other countries
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 ...
Read More The ‘Anglo-Saxon’ political crisis – from Reagan & Thatcher to Trump & Brexit
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, ...
Read More Why are China and India growing so fast?
The world’s two most rapidly growing major economies are China and India. Both China and India show a common pattern of development which differs sharply ...
Read More Socialist policies can help famine-stricken countries
An immense human catastrophe is threatening in parts of Africa and in Yemen. As the Washington Post wrote in February: "The world is in the grip ...
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