China is warning Britain in no uncertain terms not to stick its nose into Hong Kong affairs, despite the fact that the two countries co-signed the Sino-British Joint Declaration in 1984 and registered ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-10
As expected, the Chinese government on Sunday adopted a tough stance on Hong Kong, with the National People’s Congress Standing Committee issuing a decision that designates a Beijing-controlled body a ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-02
The 110th anniversary of the birth of Deng Xiaoping on Aug. 22 has brought forth a flood of articles and speeches on the late reformer, including a 48-part miniseries on his launching of economic refo ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-26
Spurred by China’s economic success in Africa, the United States this month held its first summit with the leaders of the continent. Presidents and prime ministers streamed into Washington for three ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-19
The International Monetary Fund (IMF), in its 2014 assessment of the Chinese economy, has advised the country to adopt lower growth targets and to put more emphasis on enacting reforms made public las ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-12
In a landmark judgment, a US appellate court has ruled as unconstitutional a decision by an American intergovernmental agency and President Barack Obama to block a Chinese company from owning some win ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-05
Two years ago, Hong Kong’s market regulator, the Securities and Futures Commission, took accounting firm Ernst & Young to court to force it to reveal information on a Chinese utility company that ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-29
Almost exactly 70 years after the signing of the Bretton Woods agreement, five major emerging economies, known collectively as BRICS, have created new institutions that would initially supplement and ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-22
The political track of the United States-China strategic and economic dialogue held last week in Beijing was beset by bickering, such as those over China’s maritime disputes and charges and countercha ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-14
While China seems to be an increasingly confident actor on the world stage, within the country, there is a serious lack of confidence in the government, with those who have thrived within the system e ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-08
Four years ago, China was crowned the world’s second largest economy, having overtaken Japan. Three months ago, the World Bank said that in purchasing power parity terms, China would become number one ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-30
Five years after the global climate change summit in Copenhagen, when the United States and China failed to reach a binding agreement, the situation has improved though much remains to be done if the ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-24
Last month’s US$400 billion, 30-year deal on natural gas between China and Russia, the biggest such deal ever, has implications beyond energy resources and bilateral relations. For one thing, it reaff ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-18
Last autumn, half a year after assuming office as China’s president, Xi Jinping invoked the ancient Silk Road of the Han dynasty 2,000 years ago and called for the forging of contemporary trading rout ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-10
The decision by the United States to indict five officers of the Chinese military on May 19 for commercial cyber-espionage is unprecedented and appears to stem from political rather than economic reas ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-03
The huge China-Russia deal on natural gas, which is being hailed as a milestone in the development of relations between the two countries, is likely in the long run to be positive for East Asia and fo ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-27
Premier Li Keqiang made headlines during his eight-day trip to Africa this month by promising that China will increase aid to the continent by US$12 billion and by predicting that bilateral trade will ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-21
A week after new World Bank figures indicated that China would overtake the United States this year to become the No. 1 economy comes the news that, for the first time, the world’s three biggest publi ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-13
A report released on April 17 has revealed that 16.1 percent of China's soil and nearly one-fifth of its arable land had been contaminated, largely by heavy metals such as cadmium, nickel and arsenic. ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-08
Years of guesstimates as to when China will surpass the United States and become the world's largest economy came to a jolting halt last week when the Financial Times, using figures released by the Wo ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-07
