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IS BIDEN ABOUT TO CALL A TRADE TRUCE WITH CHINA? #388
GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON Mao Tsetung wrote at the height of the Cold War that Superpower rivalry is characterised by Conflict and Cooperation. War can...IS PUTIN TO BLAME? #387
GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON The Post on 10 May 2022 on Ukraine stirred the pot. Some approved. Some disapproved. Let me bring into the debate the...US BANKS IN CHINA – IS IT SIGNIFICANT? #386
GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON A note to inform readers that tomorrow’s post will be More On Ukraine. Today the FT reports that all but one of...CHINA AND OLD AGE #385
GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON The West loves bad news about China. It does not come from anywhere + its goal is to damage + discredit...BRI AND ALLEGED DEBT DIPLOMACY #384
GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON China’s critics always claim that the Belt and Road Initiative is a trick to lure vulnerable developing countries into excessive borrowing,...
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It is interesting to observe how the West’s so-called experts on China wrestle uncomfortably with China’s progress. Their starting point is common to them...Graham Perry is interviewed on China TV
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GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON On the issue of Xinjiang and the Uighurs, there are two conflicting narratives. The first is that China is committing genocide against the...BELT + ROAD REVISITED #342
GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON On Belt + Road Initiative (BRI) there are two different views. The West asserts that this is “Debt Trap Diplomacy” and...GENOCIDE? NO GENOCIDE
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GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON 10 JUNE 2021 President Biden hopes to persuade the EU to criticise China re allegations that China is persecuting the Uyghurs;...
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IS BIDEN ABOUT TO CALL A TRADE TRUCE WITH CHINA? #388
GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON Mao Tsetung wrote at the height of the Cold War that Superpower rivalry is characterised by Conflict and Cooperation. War can...IS PUTIN TO BLAME? #387
GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON The Post on 10 May 2022 on Ukraine stirred the pot. Some approved. Some disapproved. Let me bring into the debate the...US BANKS IN CHINA – IS IT SIGNIFICANT? #386
GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON A note to inform readers that tomorrow’s post will be More On Ukraine. Today the FT reports that all but one of...CHINA AND OLD AGE #385
GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON The West loves bad news about China. It does not come from anywhere + its goal is to damage + discredit...BRI AND ALLEGED DEBT DIPLOMACY #384
GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON China’s critics always claim that the Belt and Road Initiative is a trick to lure vulnerable developing countries into excessive borrowing,...
- Chatham House
IS PUTIN TO BLAME? #387
GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON The Post on 10 May 2022 on Ukraine stirred the pot. Some approved. Some disapproved. Let me bring into the debate the...BRI AND ALLEGED DEBT DIPLOMACY #384
GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON China’s critics always claim that the Belt and Road Initiative is a trick to lure vulnerable developing countries into excessive borrowing,...“WHAT WOULD IT TAKE FOR CHINA TO DENOUNCE RUSSIA RE UKRAINE”. A READER ASKS #383.
GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON The assumption in the above question is that there must come a time when China will wash its hands of Russia;...CHINA’S GOAL #379
GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON The issue of Ukraine dominates political discussion as governments weigh up the next steps in the War + and predict the...TRUMP’S SPECTRE OVER THE FUTURE#376
GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON Today the headlines are dominated by Ukraine. The focus of the world is on the hostilities between Russia + Ukraine as...
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EARTHQUAKES HAPPEN #375
GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON Earthquakes occur along fault lines, cracks in the Earth's crust where tectonic plates meet. They occur where plates are spreading, slipping,...THE PARTY CONTROLS THE BILLIONAIRES
Chinese Regulators have fined Alibaba a record $2.8bn after finding that the commerce group had abused its market dominance. The penalty comes after Jack...FACTS ABOUT CHINA + COVID
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GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON #173 3 Examples Zhang Meng a single mother received maternity insurance for her only child after a 4 year battle against the...
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CHINA WHEN IT GOES WRONG #380
GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON A rumoured exchange between Premier Zhou Enlai and President Nixon. “Nixon asks Zhou “What are your views on the French Revolution?”....THE NATIONAL PEOPLE’S CONGRESS MEETS #373
GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON China's legislature, the National People’s Congress, began its annual session by targeting "around 5.5%" growth in gross domestic product for 2022...THE TWO SESSIONS IN CHINA #368
GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON The issue of Ukraine commands the attention of the world as around-the-clock film, pictures and reports from frontline journalists dominates political...SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN CHINA #363
GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON HSBC Bank distributes a weekly publication about developments in China and the current issue reports the case of a mentally ill...THE DISORDERLY EXPANSION OF CAPITAL #362
GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON This is a term that regularly appears in Chinese policy statements + yet is little understood in the West. Capital has to...
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GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON The Winter Olympics opens in four days in Beijing and, as with many other aspects of life in China, there are...RE-STATING MY CHINA CREDENTIALS #344
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GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON Today's FT carries the following comment: “A desire in the White House to wrap up nagging foreign policy problems so it can...CHINA AND THE COLLAPSE OF AFGHANISTAN #307
GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON Government forces in Afghanistan have suffered a bad 24 hours with the fall of the Taliban of Kandahar and Herat. The...HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY #287
GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON 24 JULY 2021 I am indebted to Professor Mahbubani for injecting into the China debate consideration of the Western mindset that...
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IS BIDEN ABOUT TO CALL A TRADE TRUCE WITH CHINA? #388
GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON Mao Tsetung wrote at the height of the Cold War that Superpower rivalry is characterised by Conflict and Cooperation. War can...IS PUTIN TO BLAME? #387
GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON The Post on 10 May 2022 on Ukraine stirred the pot. Some approved. Some disapproved. Let me bring into the debate the...US BANKS IN CHINA – IS IT SIGNIFICANT? #386
GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON A note to inform readers that tomorrow’s post will be More On Ukraine. Today the FT reports that all but one of...CHINA AND OLD AGE #385
GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON The West loves bad news about China. It does not come from anywhere + its goal is to damage + discredit...BRI AND ALLEGED DEBT DIPLOMACY #384
GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON China’s critics always claim that the Belt and Road Initiative is a trick to lure vulnerable developing countries into excessive borrowing,...
- Featured
Liu Xin of The Point on CGTN & Graham Perry
I was recently interviewed on China TV re Covid-19. https://youtu.be/oqj-CG43IAU?t=867 The interviewer is Liu Xin of The Point on CGTN Graham PPREJUDICE DRESSED UP AS “EXPERT COMMENT”
It is interesting to observe how the West’s so-called experts on China wrestle uncomfortably with China’s progress. Their starting point is common to them...Graham Perry is interviewed on China TV
Graham Perry is interviewed on China TV by Liu Xing of The Point about the US demand for further Covid-19 'Lab Leak' Investigations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfgCkWSKunU&list=PLt-M8o1W_GdSNhViAVk4Fq8IItW8PHBVfCOVID AND DEMOCRACY PART 4
VACCINATION, INDIA, AND RACE HATE IN THE USA MAY 2021 This is the last in a series of four articles on the topic of Covid and...China Daily Zoom Interview
“Recently I did a zoom interview with the China Daily. This is a short summary of the interview. My position is that China has been...
- Uyghurs
UK COVERAGE OF CHINA IS SO ONE-SIDED #353
GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON This Column is keen to bring balance to the debate about China. Different views need to be aired in order for...THE UIGHURS REVISITED #349
GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON On the issue of Xinjiang and the Uighurs, there are two conflicting narratives. The first is that China is committing genocide against the...BELT + ROAD REVISITED #342
GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON On Belt + Road Initiative (BRI) there are two different views. The West asserts that this is “Debt Trap Diplomacy” and...GENOCIDE? NO GENOCIDE
Re Nazi Germany in the 1930’s – 1945, there were street beatings of Jews, daubings of Jewish shops with swastikas, furnaces, crematoriums, bullets in...ARE THE US/EU “TIGHT” AS BIDEN ASSERTS? #247
GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON 10 JUNE 2021 President Biden hopes to persuade the EU to criticise China re allegations that China is persecuting the Uyghurs;...
- Xi Jinping
IS BIDEN ABOUT TO CALL A TRADE TRUCE WITH CHINA? #388
GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON Mao Tsetung wrote at the height of the Cold War that Superpower rivalry is characterised by Conflict and Cooperation. War can...IS PUTIN TO BLAME? #387
GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON The Post on 10 May 2022 on Ukraine stirred the pot. Some approved. Some disapproved. Let me bring into the debate the...US BANKS IN CHINA – IS IT SIGNIFICANT? #386
GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON A note to inform readers that tomorrow’s post will be More On Ukraine. Today the FT reports that all but one of...CHINA AND OLD AGE #385
GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON The West loves bad news about China. It does not come from anywhere + its goal is to damage + discredit...BRI AND ALLEGED DEBT DIPLOMACY #384
GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON China’s critics always claim that the Belt and Road Initiative is a trick to lure vulnerable developing countries into excessive borrowing,...
- Chatham House
IS PUTIN TO BLAME? #387
GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON The Post on 10 May 2022 on Ukraine stirred the pot. Some approved. Some disapproved. Let me bring into the debate the...BRI AND ALLEGED DEBT DIPLOMACY #384
GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON China’s critics always claim that the Belt and Road Initiative is a trick to lure vulnerable developing countries into excessive borrowing,...“WHAT WOULD IT TAKE FOR CHINA TO DENOUNCE RUSSIA RE UKRAINE”. A READER ASKS #383.
GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON The assumption in the above question is that there must come a time when China will wash its hands of Russia;...CHINA’S GOAL #379
GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON The issue of Ukraine dominates political discussion as governments weigh up the next steps in the War + and predict the...TRUMP’S SPECTRE OVER THE FUTURE#376
GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON Today the headlines are dominated by Ukraine. The focus of the world is on the hostilities between Russia + Ukraine as...
- China Trade
EARTHQUAKES HAPPEN #375
GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON Earthquakes occur along fault lines, cracks in the Earth's crust where tectonic plates meet. They occur where plates are spreading, slipping,...THE PARTY CONTROLS THE BILLIONAIRES
Chinese Regulators have fined Alibaba a record $2.8bn after finding that the commerce group had abused its market dominance. The penalty comes after Jack...FACTS ABOUT CHINA + COVID
GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON #182 FACTS ABOUT CHINA + COVID 70+ Countries + Territories have either approved Chinese vaccines or done deals to receive doses from...RARE-EARTH RE-VISITED
GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON #179 This column has previously warned about the coming world power struggle over rare-earths (R-Es) They are 17 metals that form under...CHINA’S PROGRESS ON SOCIAL ISSUES
GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON #173 3 Examples Zhang Meng a single mother received maternity insurance for her only child after a 4 year battle against the...
- China
CHINA WHEN IT GOES WRONG #380
GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON A rumoured exchange between Premier Zhou Enlai and President Nixon. “Nixon asks Zhou “What are your views on the French Revolution?”....THE NATIONAL PEOPLE’S CONGRESS MEETS #373
GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON China's legislature, the National People’s Congress, began its annual session by targeting "around 5.5%" growth in gross domestic product for 2022...THE TWO SESSIONS IN CHINA #368
GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON The issue of Ukraine commands the attention of the world as around-the-clock film, pictures and reports from frontline journalists dominates political...SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN CHINA #363
GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON HSBC Bank distributes a weekly publication about developments in China and the current issue reports the case of a mentally ill...THE DISORDERLY EXPANSION OF CAPITAL #362
GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON This is a term that regularly appears in Chinese policy statements + yet is little understood in the West. Capital has to...
- Beijing
THE WINTER OLYMPICS #346
GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON The Winter Olympics opens in four days in Beijing and, as with many other aspects of life in China, there are...RE-STATING MY CHINA CREDENTIALS #344
GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON Who are you? Why do you write about China? Do you know what you are talking about? These questions often arise as I reach...AFGHANISTAN, US AND CHINA #308
GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON Today's FT carries the following comment: “A desire in the White House to wrap up nagging foreign policy problems so it can...CHINA AND THE COLLAPSE OF AFGHANISTAN #307
GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON Government forces in Afghanistan have suffered a bad 24 hours with the fall of the Taliban of Kandahar and Herat. The...HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY #287
GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON 24 JULY 2021 I am indebted to Professor Mahbubani for injecting into the China debate consideration of the Western mindset that...
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