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Real Western politics is much more ominous than House of Cards – two videos
I have two videos published analyzing why real Western politics is far more sinister than the purely cardboard villains in House of Cards. It ...
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Chinese socialism’s rapid economic growth, Western capitalism’s ‘new mediocre’ – economic background to the 19th Communist Party of China Congress
The present 19th Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) occurs on the 20th anniversary of the Asian financial crisis and the 10th ...
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China’s GDP is Growing More than 3 Times as Fast as the US and China’s Per Capita GDP More than 4 times as Fast
The latest US GDP figures, published on 28 September, confirm once more that China's economy has grown more than three times as fast as the US ...
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NFL protests & victory of Steve Bannon’s candidate in Alabama shows deepening US political polarisation
Two events in the US in last week - the victory of Steve Bannon backed candidate Roy Moore in the Alabama Republican Senate primary and ...
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German election again confirms increasing Western political turbulence
The outcome of the 24 September German elections was dramatic itself. The Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union’s (CDU/CSU’s) 33% was its lowest percentage of ...
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International context of the Communist Party of China’s 19th Congress
A Communist Party of China (CPC) Congress is always a major event, but even by that standard the 19th CPC National Congress, presumably starting ...
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Why BRICS will overtake the G7 economies in size
A radio interview with me on why Jim O'Neill is correct that BRICS will overtake the G7 in economic size - and why BRICS already ...
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Will China’s Upcoming Communist Party Congress Formalize ‘Xi’ism’?
The once in five years upcoming Congress of China’s ruling Communist Party, to be held this autumn, would in every circumstance be a major ...
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New GDP figures confirm China’s economy is growing more than three times as fast as the US
The US has just published new data for the 2nd quarter of 2017. In order to accurately compare this data with China it is ...
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Why China is a socialist country – China’s theory is in line with Marx (but not the post-1929 Soviet Union)
Deng Xiaoping is famous for the saying 'it doesn't matter whether a cat is black or white provided it catches mice.' As I am an ...
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