John Ross
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John Ross is Visiting Professor at Antai College, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. From 2000 to 2008 he was Director of Economic and Business Policy in the administration of the Mayor of London Ken Livingstone, a post equivalent to the current position of Deputy Mayor. He was previously an adviser to major international mining, finance and equipment manufacturing companies. |
March 11
- 12th Five Year Plan marks a major development in thinking
- Prioritizing living standards over pure GDP growth contrasts sharply with Western approaches to economic management.
January 30
- Even optimists underestimated China's growth
- Ten years ago, Goldman Sachs' famous forecasts of China's economic growth were seen as impossibly optimistic. But today they seem conservative.
December 9
- Shanghai's rise as world-class education centre
- Two striking developments show the rapid rise of Shanghai as a world-class educational center.
November 23
- US anti-state ideology destabilising world economy
- The US population has paid a high price in terms of falling living standards and unemployment for their government's attachment to economic dogma. Quantitative easing threatens to spread the pain worldwide.
October 14
- China's economists and China's soft power
- John Ross: In a rare display of China's "soft power" its economists have exposed the incoherent arguments of Western pundits on the RMB.
September 27
- What lies behind anti-China rhetoric in Congress?
- John Ross: Arguments in the US Congress to justify calls for tariffs on Chinese imports are clearly not the real reason for the proposals.
September 9
- China's coming two decades of innovation
- John Ross: Those who criticize the Chinese economy for lack of innovation will be proved wrong in the next twenty years.
August 6
- The US economy needs to learn some Chinese
- With the US economy slowing down again it is time for Washington to study China's economic policies.
June 27
- G20 highlights superiority of China's economy
- The US-Europe dispute over deficit reduction highlights the superiority of China's economic system.
May 27
- Respect for core interests the key issue at S&ED
- Respecting each other's core interests should, objectively speaking, be an easy task for China and the U.S.
