Has China’s Jack Ma Really Gone ‘Missing’, or Is Beijing Simply Showing Who’s Boss?

January 8, 2021

The need to crackdown on the power and influence of Big Tech is not just a concern for the West. This episode with the Alibaba founder cannot be portrayed as the Communist Party just wielding its powe…

Xi’s Wild Geese Chase the Silk Road Gold

May 17, 2017

Opinion

At the two-day New Silk Road international forum in Beijing, President Xi Jinping set out to establish China as the flagship of a new, benign trade-focussed world order. This was, said Xi, a “new mode…

Will Trump Hop on an American Silk Road?

January 25, 2017

Opinion

Hysteria reigns supreme at the dawn of the Trump era, with the President rebranded across the whole ideological spectrum as an American Mao or even an American Hitler. Let’s step away from this “Ameri…

Nobody ‘Stealing’ Your Jobs, You Spend Too Much on Wars, Alibaba Founder tells US

January 22, 2017

Miscellaneous

Chinese billionaire and Alibaba founder Jack Ma believes that improper distribution of funds and hyper inflated US military spending, not globalization or other countries “stealing” US jobs, is behind…

Trump, Kissinger and Ma playing on a Crowded Chessboard

January 16, 2017

Opinion

Incoming US Secretary of State “T Rex” Tillerson told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that China should be denied access to islands in the South China Sea. Militarization of the islands, he sai…