China’s competitiveness and American badmouthing
23 April 2024
The US approach to China is based on a mix of arrogance, nastiness, and naiveté.
23 April 2024
Justice and finance at COP28
7 December 2023
COP28 in Dubai highlights the pressing issues of climate justice and financing amid a worsening climate emergency.
7 December 2023
The US economic war on China
6 September 2023
The anti-China policies come out of a familiar playbook of US policymaking.
6 September 2023
US politics and the Paris finance summit
2 July 2023
The leaders at the Paris summit recognised the urgent need for a massive expansion of official development financing from the Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs).
2 July 2023
How JFK would pursue peace in Ukraine
10 June 2023
In the context of the Russia-Ukraine war, Biden has behaved almost the opposite of JFK. He has personally and repeatedly denigrated Russian President Vladimir Putin.
10 June 2023
The war in Ukraine was not ‘unprovoked’
2 June 2023
There is no fairy tale end to the war in Ukraine, in which Ukraine defeats Russia on the battlefield and then joins Nato.
2 June 2023
America’s wars and the US debt crisis
21 May 2023
The US’ annual military spending is now around $900 billion, roughly 40 percent of the world's total, and greater than the next 10 countries combined.
21 May 2023
Money makes the world go round – and development succeed
16 May 2023
The key to economic development and ending poverty is investment.
16 May 2023
The need for a new US foreign policy
Unless US foreign policy is changed to recognise the need for a multipolar world, it will lead to more wars, and possibly World War III.
15 April 2023
The global banking crisis and world economy
The banking crisis that hit Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) recently has spread.
25 March 2023
What Ukraine needs to learn from Afghanistan
Afghanistan today lies in ruins. While the US wasted more than $2 trillion of its military outlays, Afghanistan is impoverished. Its 2021 GDP was below $400 per person.
20 March 2023