by Jim Ball | Jul 26, 2020 | Blog, China, Trade
The total gutting of the American economy and the economies of other western nations like Australia, can be layed squarely at the feet of both Bill Clinton and George W Bush. It was these two who duchess-ed and ushered China into the WTO in the early 2000’s and... 
by Jim Ball | Jul 26, 2020 | Blog, China, Cultural Marxism, Random Notes, social justice warriors, socialism, The Left |
In our wildest imaginings anyone growing up in the West, would never have thought or believed possible, amidst that magnificent, post WW2 period of opportunity, that we would find ourselves in the early 21st century, mimicking the communist China’s cultural revolution... by Jim Ball | May 25, 2020 | Belt and Road, Blog, China
The comparisons between Germany in the 1930’s and China’s Belt and Road and the associated, pimp like dependency and debt trap diplomacy waged against smaller states in 2020, as outlined by Henry Ergas are chilling. It’s almost as if China has lifted the set piece... by Jim Ball | May 25, 2020 | Belt and Road, Blog, China, Random Notes |
It was the New York Times Moscow Bureau Chief and communist Russian lick spittle and fanboy, Walter Duranty who totally under reported and downplayed the cold, calculated and deliberate starvation of millions of Ukrainians in 1932/33 with up to 10 million dead in... by Jim Ball | May 22, 2020 | Belt and Road, Blog, China, Random Notes, Victoria Belt and Road
Where is the Victorian opposition leader, warning that a Liberal government will not honour and in fact terminate the Belt and Road arrangement if elected? You know, just like Dan Andrews did in his exercise of economic vandalism, moral hazard and sovereign risk with... by Jim Ball | Mar 19, 2020 | Blog, Caronavirus, China, Coronavirus, Random Notes, Trotsky, Uncategorised |
Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky once said that “you may not be interested in politics but politics is interested in you”. Actually he said ‘war’, not ‘politics’, but as the 18th century military theorist, Carl Von Clausewitz observed anyway, “war is politics by...