US President Donald Trump blew off two multilateral summits in Asia this month. Given his soggy and sulking performance that week in Paris, during the international commemoration of the centenary of t ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-29
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” This aphorism, often attributed to Albert Einstein, seems to be the inspiration for US President Donald Trump’s ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-29
The Kremlin’s foreign policy increasingly seems to rest on the assumption that all countries are as corruptible as Vladimir Putin’s Russia. This was evident most recently in Russia’s alleged efforts t ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-21
Donald Trump’s presidency reminds me of nothing so much as the wars in Yugoslavia in the 1990s. At the height of the violence, a Serb friend said to me: “I don’t like [Slobodan] Milošević. I don’t lik ...More
EJ Insight2018-07-27
Just days ago, the planned summit in Singapore between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un seemed to be hanging by a thread. Talks are still on track, but the North Koreans h ...More
EJ Insight2018-05-24
Since the April 27 summit between South Korean President Moon Jae-in and his North Korean counterpart Kim Jong-un, US President Donald Trump has sought, unsurprisingly, to portray himself as the maste ...More
EJ Insight2018-05-02
US President Donald Trump’s recent cabinet shakeup – with former CIA Director Mike Pompeo replacing Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State and foreign-policy hardliner John Bolton replacing H.R. McMaster ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-04
Given that most of the Middle East is now in a state of turmoil, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson should be commended for keeping the Syrian conflict in mind during his recent trip to the region. H ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-20
South Korean President Moon Jae-in has made a good start to the New Year. Not only did he broker an agreement to bring North Korea to the Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang; he also convinced US Pres ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-01
US President Donald Trump certainly has a point when he complains that he inherited the difficult problem in North Korea. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has shown no interest in negotiation, or even ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-30
US President Donald Trump has decided not to certify that Iran is in compliance with the terms of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the agreement constraining Iran’s nuclear weapons prog ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-01
One of the hallmarks of a presidential transition in the United States is a comprehensive policy review, aimed at determining which policies to retain and which to eliminate or change. As President-el ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-01
在美國總統奧巴馬的8年任期步入尾聲之際，外界對他無法遏止敍利亞殺戮的批評愈演愈烈，不少人將之稱為他「最壞的錯誤 ...全文
今日信報EJ GlobalEJ GLOBAL plus 信觀點Christopher R. Hill2016年10月08日
These are difficult times for China. After decades of double-digit GDP growth, today’s slowdown points to an economic system in trouble. Once hailed as a model of development, the Chinese economy now ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-04
By all accounts, the much anticipated Seventh Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea was a non-event. If the first such meeting of North Korea’s highest organ in more than 35 years had any impact at ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-30
Negotiators from the two Koreas appear to have resolved this month’s crisis, in which South Korea’s use of loudspeakers to broadcast messages across the demilitarized zone spurred threats of war from ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-28
It didn’t take long, but according to the Korea Central News Agency, the North Koreans are underwhelmed by the Iran nuclear deal -- and thus unlikely to follow suit. The North Korean announcement took ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-31
