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A ‘must read’ article on current China-India disputes by a leading Indian analyst
Prem Shankar Jha is a leading Indian journalist, columnist and former editor of the Hindustan Times, New Delhi. He has published an outstanding analysis ...
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The US trade deficit is ‘Made in the USA’ not ‘Made in China’
China’s tactical response to the US administration’s arbitrary proposed tariffs against China, as well as unjustified US official and unofficial sanctions against Chinese companies ...
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An important paper on China’s economic reform
Elias Jabbour and Alexis Dantas, two economists in Brazil, have published an important study of China's economic reform 'The political economy of reforms and the ...
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New turbulence on US financial markets shows the limits on US growth under Trump
On Friday 2 February sharp turmoil, which had been building for some time, shook US financial markets. The driving force was the continuing sharp rise ...
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Trump’s tax cut – short term gain, long term pain for the US economy
To assess the impact of the Trump tax cut on the US economy it is necessary to analyse the interrelation of two processes: The ...
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The West’s ‘new mediocre’ and the rise of China’s economics
In a recent article ’The Arrival of the Century of Chinese Economics’ Justin Yifu Lin argued that the centre of world theoretical economics would pass to ...
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China’s increasing impact in Central and Eastern Europe
The Financial Times carried on 27 November a long article on China's increasing impact in Central and Eastern Europe under the self-explanatory title 'Eastern ...
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China was ready to support Greece at the height of the 2015 debt crisis says former Greek Finance Minister Varoufakis – an important lesson for Europe
In an important and revealing video former Finance Minister in Greece's Syriza government, Yanis Varoufakis, has revealed his successful negotiations for a mutually beneficial ...
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New US data shows that China’s economy is growing at 6.8% and US at 2.3% – China growing almost three times as fast as US
New US data published on Friday shows that the US economy in the year to the 3rd quarter of 2017 grew by 2.3%. In comparison ...
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By 2022 China will enter the ranks of world high income countries – creating a ‘new era’ in the global economy
China at the 19th CPC Congress reaffirmed its immediate domestic goal as to ‘comprehensively build a moderately prosperous society’ by 2020. This forms a ...
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