The effectiveness of China’s efforts to brainwash Uighurs and Central Asian Muslims in the troubled northwestern province of Xinjiang may be tested. With the recent release of 40 Uighur wives of Pakis ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-07
Addressing last year’s Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, then US defense secretary Jim Mattis dismissed fears first voiced in 1997 by Zbigniew Brzezinski, one of America’s greatest 20th century strate ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-16
US President Donald Trump has ordered a shake-up of the leadership of the Department of Homeland Security, the head of the US Secret Service said, after the White House said the official would soon be ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-09
US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer went to Beijing last week for fresh trade talks. There has been speculation that the two sides have made some substantia ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-03
The inversion of the US yield curve has stoked fears of an economic recession. Leaving the yield curve topic aside, the dovish stance of central banks in US, China and EU also raises concern that the ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-27
The Federal Reserve’s stunning about-face on rate increases along with weak economic data has left a key part of the US Treasury yield curve close to levels at which the US central bank has in the pas ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-26
The US Federal Reserve on Wednesday brought its three-year drive to tighten monetary policy to an abrupt end, abandoning projections for any interest rate hikes this year amid signs of an economic slo ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-21
The government's proposed amendments to the Fugitive Offenders Ordinance have raised grave concern among Hong Kong entrepreneurs who run manufacturing plants in the mainland. Members of the two leadin ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-15
Over the years, I have been involved in several bodies concerned with Hong Kong’s built heritage. I have served on the Antiquities Advisory Board and the Advisory Committee on Revitalization of Histor ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-25
The recent breakdown of Hong Kong’s public healthcare system as a result of patient overcrowding has once again reignited the debate over one-way permits (OWPs) for mainland residents. Unfortunately, ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-21
As part of an exchange program in South Korea held in October last year, I had a chance to visit the Songdo International Business District, a smart city on a reclaimed island near the Incheon Interna ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-18
Thailand’s election commission said on Wednesday it is seeking the disqualification of a party that nominated a princess for prime minister, in what would be a setback for the opposition loyal to oust ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-13
Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.’s chief financial officer, the central figure in a high-stakes dispute between the world’s two largest economies, made her first appearance in a Canadian court in more tha ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-30
Recent macro data from the leading economies point to a widespread slowdown. What is more concerning is not just a logical moderation in the path of growth, but acceleration in the weakening of econom ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-21
Mohsin Khan is still at his job repairing aircraft hydraulics parts although the Singaporean turns 75 in a couple of months. His technical skills are prized by his employer, and as his eyesight deteri ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-18
Equity markets witnessed a remarkable bounce over the last two weeks. In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng Index rallied 7 percent from the trough since Christmas Eve, while in the US the S&P 500 index gai ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-16
Since its peak in August, transaction price of residential units in Hong Kong has fallen 5-10 percent on average. The Centa-City Leading Index ended 2018 at 174.49, representing a 7.5 percent slide f ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-11
The People’s Bank of China has announced a 1 percentage point cut in banks'reserve requirement ratio, and the market has responded more positively than it did to multiple cuts last year. More importan ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-09
Ever since Donald Trump assumed the US presidency in January 2017, Washington saw its relations with quite a few countries take a turn for the worse, including the ties with Mexico. One of Trump's mos ...More
EJ Insight2018-12-24
