Pearls [China’s String of]
China now owns/controls many ports along the Belt and [maritime] Road. Gwadar, in Pakistan; Piraeus, in Greece and in 2018,…
Mobile Pay
Mobile Pay – paying for goods and services by phone – is just one of the many ways that China…
Guns and Butter?
China has two overarching and interrelated imperatives. Provide improving economic and personal opportunities for its citizens, and reestablish its historic…
China’s Perspective
China remembers its former greatness. Magnificent civil engineering projects: the Dujiangyan Water Project still functioning after 2400 years; the Great…
Chinese Credit
The Chinese banking system has long been afflicted by massive lending to State Owned Enterprises (SOEs), organizations whose purposes did…
Made in China 2025
The formalized industrialization component of the grand ambition, now well under way: including the Belt and Road initiative, the String…
South China Sea
The United States Energy Information Administration has estimated that 11 billion barrels of oil and 190 trillion cubic feet of…
Full House
Stephen Jay Gould, Full House (1996). A celebration of variety, and a repudiation of doctrinal purity. “In a society driven…
Fuel Cells??
The widespread assumption is that Electric Powered Vehicles are the big force over coming decades BUT is this the only…
Whithered Economics?
Whither (-ed?, -ing?) macro economics The governing paradigms of macroeconomic theory are in disarray. Only in mainstream academia, and the…
PRE-REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA
Does the Davos elite have lessons to learn from the experiences of Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Herzen? Their writings illuminate the…
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