China’s Long-Term Strategy vs The West’s Civil War and Short-Termism While the effectively bankrupt West is tearing itself apart and undermining its society, economy and science, China is not just […]
Read MoreAs we argued in 2007 and again following the G20 summit in Hamburg, global warming will affect poor countries far less able to cope with the consequences than the advanced […]
Read MoreMuch of the West is effectively bankrupt and insolvent. The developing world is not much better off. France’s cumulative debt of government, households and businesses amounts to 250% of GDP, […]
Read MoreLess than a month after the hysteria and sheer bad thinking levelled at the decision of U.S. President Donald Trump to withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate change, some […]
Read MoreIn his writeup of this year’s gathering of politicians and businessmen in Davos (“Complacency in a Leaderless, Multipolar World,” The Moscow Times, Feb. 12, 2013), Nobel laureate in economics Joseph Stiglitz quotes with apparent approval a development expert who claimed […]
Read MoreDrawing by Niyaz Karim Just before the start of the recent G20 summit in Los Cabos, Mexico, economists at the Brookings Institution announced that policy paralysis was hitting the global […]
Read MoreIn the 1990s, many economists in the U.S. and Europe predicted that the euro would fail. Yet precious few pointed to the West’s huge debt in the late 1990s – or forecast […]
Read MoreГлобальный экономический форум в Давосе на прошлей неделе очередной раз показал, почему global outreach («разъяснительная кампания») в России неудачна: РФ еще не понимает внешний мир и не умеет с ним […]
Read MoreПарадоксы русской модернизации Modernity – западно-европейское изобретение, а не китайское. Попытаемся разобраться в том, что такое modernity, выяснив попутно некоторые западные unspoken assumptions – «непроговариваемые предположения». Ведь именно они объясняют, […]
Read MoreRussia and China are becoming increasingly integrated in the global economy and both have stepped up their activity sharply in Africa, Latin America and Asia in recent years, trends that […]
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