Tag: China

China, Japan and South Korea Are ‘the Big Winners’ As Major Trade Deal is Signed, Economist Explains

21 November 2020|Sputnik|Mohamed Elmaazi

China is slowly reorienting its economy “away from North America” and “towards the rest of Asia” as evidenced by the newly finalised Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership that it has signed with 15 fellow Asian countries, covering 2.3 billion people, a long-time City of London economic analyst says.

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US desire to remain a superpower ended key nuclear treaty, and may lead to war with China

24 August 2019|The Canary|Mohamed Elmaazi

The US withdrawal from another key nuclear weapons agreement with Russia should be understood in the wider context of US attempts to contain the rise of China. An objective which experts say may ultimately lead to war.

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It’s all going pear-shaped

24 August 2019|The Interregnum|Michael Roberts

Long time City economist Michael Roberts writes that the decline in the rate of profitability in the US economy (as well as others) is leading to a recession. Roberts, using a Marxist critique, argues that Keynesian, Post-Keynesian, and Modern Monetary Theorists – while well meaning – are incorrect in their belief that a government-backed stimulus will either prevent a recession, or result in recovery from one.

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(Part 1) Pentagon is “demarcating the highway to war with China”, warns ex-US Colonel

13 MAY 2019|THE INTERREGNUM|MOHAMED ELMAAZI

The US Department of Defense (DOD) recently published its annual report for Congress about China’s  “military and security developments”. National security and foreign policy expert Lawrence Wilkerson warned that the report is a “budget ploy”, which is part of a larger and more dangerous aggressive US posture, that sees China not only as a competitor but also as a threat to vital US national security interests. He says this world-view is setting the stage for war.

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