Walden Bello
Activist • Academic • Journalist • Writer
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Chain-Gang Economics: China, the US, and the Global Economy
"The world [is] investing too little," according to one prominent economist. "The current situation has its...
Free Trade vs Small Farmers
The 20th century was a terrible blight on small farmers everywhere. In both wealthy capitalist economies and in socialist...
The End of the Affair?
Political sociologists have sometimes described the Chinese Revolution as the product of an alliance between middle class...
Beijing?s Diplomacy in Africa Sparks Debate at World Social Forum
With its rise as a modernising economic superpower, China’s involvment in Africa has shifted from the old solidarity...
Globalisation in Retreat
When it first became part of the English vocabulary in the early 1990s, globalization was supposed to be the wave of the...
China and Southeast Asia: Emerging Problems in an Economic Relationship
The much publicized wooing of African countries by China exemplified by the China-Africa meeting that took place in Beijing...