Last week, former Chief Secretary John Lee, the sole candidate in the election this coming Sunday [May 8] for Hong Kong’s Chief Executive where the voters are the roughly 1,500 members of a China-domi ...More
EJ Insight2022-05-04
Twenty-five years ago, at midnight on June 30, 1997, Britain handed over Hong Kong, its colony for 150 years, to China in return for a promise that the region would be given “a high degree of autonomy ...More
EJ Insight2022-04-06
However the war in Ukraine ends, Russia will be a loser and international pariah. And China, unless it stops sitting on its hands, will have lost a major opportunity to show itself as a world leader. ...More
EJ Insight2022-03-08
Is Hong Kong dying, again? In June 1995, two years before Britain handed Hong Kong over to China, Fortune magazine famously published a cover story boldly proclaiming “The Death of Hong Kong” writte ...More
EJ Insight2022-02-08
While continuing to insist that Hong Kong is an internal Chinese affair in which foreigners should not interfere, the Chinese government is using the recent legislative elections in the former British ...More
EJ Insight2022-01-03
In the three weeks since the virtual meeting between President Joe Biden of the United States and Chinese leader Xi Jinping, there has been a clear improvement in the relationship, with China now coop ...More
EJ Insight2021-12-07
President Joe Biden asserted in late October that the United States would defend Taiwan if it came under attack, a stance different from the “strategic ambiguity” that has characterized American polic ...More
EJ Insight2021-11-02
In October 2017, Chinese leader Xi Jinping delivered an hourslong address at a Communist party congress in which he made a key prediction: that China would move “closer to center stage” in the world. ...More
EJ Insight2021-10-07
In October 2017, Chinese leader Xi Jinping delivered an ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightFrank Ching2021年10月07日
The crisis in Afghanistan, which exploded with the sudd ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightFrank Ching2021年09月10日
The crisis in Afghanistan, which exploded with the sudden collapse of the Ashraf Ghani government, left the Taliban in control, creating consternation over the possibility that the country may once ag ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-09
Fifty years to the month after Henry Kissinger’s secret visit to China to end a generation of hostility between Washington and Beijing, another American official, Wendy Sherman, was in China, this tim ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-03
In a speech marking the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, its current leader, Xi Jinping, announced the realization of the party’s goal of “building a moderately prospe ...More
EJ Insight2021-07-05
Four decades ago, China entranced the world as its then paramount leader Deng Xiaoping opened up the country to foreign investors and focused on modernization. Part of his strategy was a blanket one-c ...More
EJ Insight2021-06-08
In a casual conversation last weekend, it turned out that a diplomat due to retire later this year had originally intended to remain in Hong Kong and join the private sector. But now, he said, “That i ...More
EJ Insight2021-05-04
In 2005, China’s National People’s Congress enacted an Anti-Secession Law. The law’s first article said its intent was to oppose “Taiwan’s secession from China” and to bring about “peaceful national r ...More
EJ Insight2021-04-08
Eight months after imposing a national security law on Hong Kong, Beijing is moving to tighten its grip over the supposedly highly autonomous region, with China’s National People’s Congress expected t ...More
EJ Insight2021-03-04
Eight months after imposing a National Security Law on ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightFrank Ching2021年03月04日
The inauguration of Joe Biden as president of the United States has been welcomed in Beijing but Chinese officials are increasingly impatient that Washington has not enunciated a new China policy. At ...More
EJ Insight2021-02-04
The inauguration of Joe Biden as president of the Unite ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightFrank Ching2021年02月04日
