John Ross

@JohnRoss43

Senior Fellow Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China

Beijing/London
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Joined July 2008
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    18 hours ago

    | 's from Argentina: "A week or two before, they called me to tell me that opposition politicians have gathered to carry out a coup d'etat. I did not believe it, I did not give it importance."

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    21 hours ago

    Turns out Boris overcooked his oven-ready Brexit & is now preparing No Deal with a side-serving of chlorinated chicken & a sprinkling of increased medicine prices! Can't decide whether to blame Corbyn or the EU for this. Watch the BBC tonight to see what bollocks I come up with!

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    9 hours ago

    There is a lot to criticise. But Corbyn and McDonnell have transformed Labour

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    16 hours ago

    Anyone - Muslim, Hindu, Christian or atheist - who values the rule of law, democracy, freedom from group identity and the world their children will inherit should strongly back the protests against Narendra Modi's dark new citizenship law. It's not just India's soul at stake.

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    13 hours ago

    You mean a long history of US-backed coups and wars: - Bolivia 1952, 1964, 1971, 2019 - Guatemala 1954 - Cuba 1961 - Brazil 1964, 2016 - Chile 1973 - Argentina 1976 - Nicaragua 1979, 2018 - El Salvador 1979 - Honduras 2009 - Paraguay 2012 - Venezuela 2002, 2018 - And many others

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    We have a long history of partnership across Latin America, built on our shared values and close ties. Proud that the new initiative will develop critical infrastructure to increase opportunity and…
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    12 hours ago

    As deliveries from Harrods arrive in Downing Street Universal Credit is blamed as Coventry Foodbank reaches grim milestone

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    15 hours ago

    “Party of the working class” takes delivery from Harrods whilst meeting to discuss the 14 million people now living in poverty & the millions it’s sent to food banks

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    12 hours ago

    A shrinking economy, lower living standards, fewer protections for workers, lower environmental standards. The Trump/Johnson Brexit is the car crash

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    17 hours ago

    14 million people living in poverty, misery & despair, millions using food banks, kids hungry, soaring homelessness, & malnutrition & apparently, according to this, the party responsible is now the party of the working class

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    8 hours ago

    . has more female than male MPs and more BAME MPs than all the other parties added together. This is something to celebrate. 😊

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    22 hours ago

    Harrods van going into Downing Street via the back gate as Johnson keeps it real for those Tory Northern seats

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    12 hours ago

    In his latest video, Boris Johnson, who misled the Queen & unlawfully suspended Parliament, who is already planning to ditch workers rights after Brexit & whose party has left millions living in poverty & using food banks says “you haven’t seen anything yet”

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    13 hours ago

    The problem with those sharpening their ice picks, and fantasising about purging the left from political life, or destroying policies that are right or popular - like public ownership and tax justice - is they might want to be more subtle, because Labour’s membership can hear you

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    16 hours ago

    "There’s plenty of time to analyse the structural problems, the personal failures and, more positively, the road to recovery... But for now, I just want to say thank you to two of the most principled people I know – Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell"

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    20 hours ago

    Johnson's an elected dictator with an 80-seat parliamentary Tory majority and Labour MPs who ahead of the election bought that he'd protect workers's rights were criminally gullible

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    22 hours ago

    Zac Goldsmith, what a story. Son of humble billionaire, at 23 made editor of a magazine (owned by his uncle), gets Tory nom for leafy London seat at 32, loses the seat twice in 3 years, (also losing London mayoral race). Elevated to the House of Lords. Truly, the British dream.

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    24 hours ago

    Sterling loses all gains from before GE poll day vs $ and euro as PM decides to legislate against his Government’s room for manoeuvre on extending UK-EU trade talks beyond next year, as an attempt to leverage a quick deal.. raising chance of WTO terms in a year:

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    Dec 17

    Boris Johnson lays foundations of a NO DEAL Brexit. That is something he and his right wing gang had always intended as he aims deliver UK to Trump. Hedge funds laying bets on the crash of the Pound.

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    Dec 16

    China contributes about 30% to global growth. Global economic growth in 2020 largely depends on China’s economy. For now, the US China trade war has failed to dampen China’s economic growth as much as Washington hawks expected

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    Dec 16

    CONCLUSIVE I defeated Labour's broken bureaucracy in the High Court: they must now pay all my costs, which will help establish a Left Legal Fighting Fund. Whilst the decision came weeks ago, I'm announcing it now as I hoped to spare Labour adverse publicity during the election.

    Left Legal Fighting Fund | Chris Williamson
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    24 hours ago

    Johnson’s “no extension” macho position on Brexit is hugely reckless & dangerous He’s ignoring all warnings of the challenges of agreeing a FTA and setting us up for a crash-out Brexit at end of 2020

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    Dec 16

    19: The number of Labour MPs who voted for Boris Johnson's Brexit deal after he promised to protect workers' rights. 9: The number of those MPs whose seats were lost in the subsequent election. 4: The number of days after the election it took Boris Johnson to break his pledge.

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    Dec 16

    This is typical of the reckless and irresponsible behaviour we have come to expect from Boris Johnson’s Government. The Tories have shown once again that they are prepared to put people’s jobs at risk in pursuit of a hard Brexit.

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    Dec 16

    Goodness, we're onto purges already. Courtesy of Tony Blair's head of policy as we invaded Iraq.

    For Labour to recover it is essential that no one who played any significant role in the Corbyn machine plays any role whatever in the future leadership or organisation of the Labour Party
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  25. 22 hours ago

    Actually Johnson wants to introduce law against Brexit extension because he is a fatuous liar who wants to try to bluff but won’t impress the EU at all because they know he can change the law at any moment

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    . tells that wants to legislate against a further Brexit extension because it shows to the public 'that they have a government that will commit' to taking the UK out of…
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    22 hours ago

    Tory austerity means our criminal justice system is failing to convict criminals or provide justice

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  27. 22 hours ago

    Give is a liar in line with the new Tory methodology

    Michael Gove tells Sky he most fears Caroline Flint as Labour leader
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    To judge Labour performance in election necessary judge not only seats it lost but those failed to win. In 15 out of top 20 Labour target seats for example Labour lost more net votes to Remain parties than Brexit parties,in only 5 lost more to Brexit parties than Remain parties

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  29. 24 hours ago

    Labour pro-Brexiters have entirely lost argument on who Labour lost votes to in election - Labour lost net 1.9 million votes to Remain parties compared to only 400k to Brexit parties. Now they have new fake method of analysing only seats Labour lost not all marginal seats.

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    Dec 16

    Wisconsin is set to purge 234,000 voters, 7% of electorate Tonight Georgia is cancelling 300,000 registrations, 4% of electorate

    NEW: Federal judge allows Georgia to go forward with its plans to cancel about 300k inactive voters, hours after a voting rights group filed a lawsuit seeking to block the move. reports:
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    Dec 16

    MPs - Women in Westminster: : 104 = 51% : 87 = 24% : 16 = 33%

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    Using this criteria China has easily best human rights record in the world - lifted 850 million out of poverty

    Pointing to growth in gross domestic product is not a human rights analysis. Economic rights require looking at how the worst-off segments of society are faring--whether in the United States, China, or anywhere else that likes to trumpet only GDP.
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  33. Dec 16

    Typical piece of empty bluff by Johnson as EU will know - Johnson can change the law at any time

    Boris Johnson to shut door on extending Brexit transition
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    Dec 16

    1) Australia is already dealing with bushfires so big they are 'beyond human ability to control.' 2) This week may see the hottest single day in the continent's recorded history. 3) Its politicians helped sabotage the Madrid climate negotiations last week

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    Dec 16

    A school in Zolochivka village was named after Ivan Lytvynchuk, organizer of mass killings of ethnic Poles in Volyn area. On March 26, 1943 his formation attacked Lipniki where they killed 179 Poles including 51 children. In April they killed more than 600 Poles in Yanova Dolina

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    Dec 16

    "Blue collar Conservatism" off to an interesting start...

    Boris Johnson could ditch promise to guarantee workers' rights and environmental protections after Brexit, No10 suggests
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    Dec 16

    No 10 says they’re doing this to make “crystal clear” to voters that Boris Johnson won’t extend transition. But reality is he could still do so at any point - all he’d need to do would be to table more legislation. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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    Dec 16

    Jess always seems to have it in for the black women.

    'I would sack Diane Abbott' says Jess Phillips
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    Dec 16

    Congratulations to Nicky Morgan on her life peerage for services to lying on behalf of an utter charlatan to whom you wouldn't have given the time of day six months earlier.

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