Antonio Graceffo

Antonio Graceffo, PhD, China-MBA, is a China economic analyst teaching economics at the American University in Mongolia. He has spent 20 years in Asia and is the author of six books about China. His writing has appeared in The DiplomatSouth China Morning PostJamestown Foundation China BriefPenthouse, Shanghai Institute of American Studies, Epoch TimesWar on the Rocks, Just the News, and Black Belt Magazine.

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Russia’s Religious Offensive in Africa

Moscow portrays itself as an alternative to the decadent West in Africa to gain support for its invasion of Ukraine

The Chinese Communist Party’s War on Catholicism

The CCP is increasingly cracking down on Chinese Roman Catholics

Silicon Valley Bank Failure: Not 2008, But Still Worrying

Though the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank is worrying for its own reasons, it will not lead to a global recession.

St. Antonio and the Scholastics: Medieval Monks as Economists

Surprisingly, the first thinker to produce a systematic treatise on what’s today called Economics was Renaissance-era Dominican monk St. Antonio of Florence.

Religious Repression in Putin’s Russia

While religion was formally abolished under the USSR, under Putin it has been repressed.

Myanmar: Another Market for Chinese Economic Domination

“China has been a principal economic and military partner of the various Myanmar and Burma regimes since the beginning.”