For more than a thousand years, the Chinese have used history as a mirror so as to learn lessons and not to repeat mistakes and have urged other countries to do the same thing. In that spirit, it may ...More
EJ Insight2018-12-31
It is often said that the United States and the United Kingdom are two allies with a special relationship largely because they speak a common language. And yet, this idea of a “common language” cannot ...More
EJ Insight2018-12-24
Henry Kissinger, in his book On China, wrote that Chinese strategists think differently than their western counterparts because they are used to playing a different board game, weiqi, where the player ...More
EJ Insight2018-12-17
Forty years ago this month, the Communist Party of China, led by Deng Xiaoping, issued a clarion call for reform. Deng, who had emerged as the country’s strongman two years after the death of Chairman ...More
EJ Insight2018-12-10
The agreement reached in Buenos Aires by Donald Trump and Xi Jinping bought China a 90-day grace period, after which the United States would tighten the screws by sharply raising tariffs until Trump g ...More
EJ Insight2018-12-03
The Hong Kong Court of Appeal’s decision in August 2017 to overrule a magistrate’s judgment ordering community service in the case of an illegal demonstration and to jail three young men – Joshua Wong ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-29
The Hong Kong Court of Appeal’s decision in August 2017 ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightFrank Ching2018年11月29日
A reported decision by China and the United States for negotiators to meet in Buenos Aires ahead of a Dec. 1 summit between President Xi Jinping and Donald Trump suggests that the two sides feel that ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-19
In August, when China took part in hearings of the UN Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the Chinese delegation was repeatedly questioned about reports of “re-education camps” in ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-13
The visit last month by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to China to mark the 40th anniversary of the signing of a treaty of peace and friendship by the two countries has been called a “historic tur ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-08
The visit last month by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightFrank Ching2018年11月08日
Chinese diplomats around the world seem to have become increasingly assertive in the aftermath of President Xi Jinping’s declaration last year that a new era had arrived that would see China moving cl ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-01
Chinese diplomats around the world seem to have become ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightFrank Ching2018年11月01日
Forty years ago, when China began its reform and opening up, Deng Xiaoping, then the country's paramount leader, delivered a speech calling on all party members to "dare to think". "Otherwise," Deng s ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-22
Last month, the president of Interpol, Meng Hongwei, made a trip back to China – and promptly vanished. His wife hasn't heard from him since Sept. 25 when he sent her via text message an emoji of a kn ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-18
Last month, the president of Interpol, Meng Hongwei, ma ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightFrank Ching2018年10月18日
Hong Kong was struck by the worst storm in recorded history last month, with Typhoon Mangkhut felling more than 40,000 trees and generally creating havoc. Then, last Friday, the Hong Kong government s ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-08
Ten years ago when I authored a short book on human rights to coincide with the Beijing Olympics, I wrote that the human rights situation was bad but used to be worse. Today, such a simple observation ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-02
Though not a churchgoer, I have over the years maintained a lively interest in religion, particularly Christianity, no doubt because of a Catholic education from kindergarten through university. I sto ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-24
Recent Chinese actions, such as heightening Taiwan’s diplomatic isolation by luring away allies like Panama, the Dominican Republic and El Salvador, and its insisting that companies – including airlin ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-20
