Heiko Khoo
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Heiko Khoo is a radio producer specialising in documenting public opinion. He is also a columnist, video producer, historian and a well known public speaker in London. He was living in East Germany at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall and worked at Tongji University and Shanghai International Studies University in the early 1990s. |
September 1, 2018
- Contradictions at the heart of chaos
- With all the noise caused by the current state of global politics, we must maintain our sense of peace if we are to hold on to any sense of hope for the future.
August 15, 2018
- Meltdown in Turkey
- Turkey is falling into an abyss of fiscal debt and currency meltdown that is hard to deal with, and could be a headache for the international banking community, especially in Western Europe.
June 12, 2018
- Spain: The government falls
- The new Sanchez government will now depend on the votes of the Catalan and Basque nationalist parties. A period of profound instability has opened up in Spain.
May 31, 2018
- British capitalism: A rentier econ
- British capitalism has become a "rentier" economy, one in which surplus value increasingly comes from extracting "rents" and financial profits from the productive sectors in other parts of the world.
May 25, 2018
- Venezuela defies its enemies
- In the long-term struggle for socialism, defending past victories and learning from them is just as important as winning new battles.
May 3, 2018
- 200 years later: What is the significance of Karl Marx today?
- Saturday brings the 200th anniversary of the birth of the unequaled philosopher Karl Marx. How is the contemporary world impacted by his ideas?
December 8, 2017
- Irish question returns to haunt Brexit
- When Theresa May did a deal with Northern Ireland Unionists to save her post-election government, she couldn't have imagined it might spark a new round of "Irish Troubles."
November 6, 2017
- Lenin, Deng Xiaoping, and the Kornai puzzle
- A new book shows how foreign ideas helped China promote its "socialist market economy," but fails to recognize the key role of the socialist system.
October 26, 2017
- Abe's new 'mandate'
- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has a strong mandate to tackle low investment, low productivity growth and low profit rates as Japanese capitalism remains frail.
October 2, 2017
- Blockchains and the cryptocurrency craze
- The world of cryptocurrency is growing, such as Bitcoins; yet is unlikely to become a significant form of moving money.
