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Ten years after the financial crash: the decade of a rising China
President Xi Jinping
BEN CHACKO speaks with Knesset member OFER CASSIF about rising political violence, the prospects for peace and his continuous ‘silencing by suspension’
The City is leaning on Rachel Reeves to cut welfare spending — when what’s needed is cuts to all the benefits given to the mega rich, corporations and banks to help them not pay or blatantly dodge their fair share of tax, explains BERNIE EVANS
The choice between two Blairites to revamp the tepid centrism of our ruling party doesn’t even come as cold comfort as we wander the city streets suffering from their third decade of austerity and the fifth of wage stagnation, writes MATT KERR
ANN HENDERSON looks at the trailblazers of the Women’s Trade Union League and their successful fight for female factory inspectors — a battle that echoes in today’s workplace campaigns
HENRY FOWLER puts the strike of public-sector workers in New Zealand in the wider context of deteriorating employment conditions throughout the world’s major economies
MAT COWARD looks back at a protest 105 years ago this month, whose reporting by the media bears uncomfortable similarities with demos today
IT IS 10 years this September since Lehman Brothers went bankrupt, bringing global capitalism to the point of collapse.
Although a total meltdown was avoided, the crash triggered a slump of 1930s proportions, and for most economies the last decade has been a lost decade of low growth, low investment, low productivity, debt, deficit, with virtually no improvement in real incomes for the 90 per cent.
The stand-out story of the period has to be the continuing rise of China. Initially also badly hit by the crisis, China recovered rapidly to emerge today as a major economic power, moving steadily closer centre stage in the global order.
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China’s opening up empowers the world, and Sino-European co-operation especially holds immense potential, argues LIANG TAO, from infrastructure and industrial capacity to cultural exchange between two ancient civilisations
Hunan province’s transformation shows how state investment can lift millions from deprivation — but Western states avoid discussion of this while ramping up military spending instead, writes FIONA EDWARDS
