US President Donald Trump announced plans Monday to end preferential trade treatment for India, accusing the South Asian nation of not providing fair market access for American companies. Under the p ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-05
Hot on the heels of the over-promising yet under-delivering second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Hanoi, US President Donald Trump addressed a crowd at the 2019 Conservative Political ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-05
European Council President Donald Tusk recently sparked controversy by saying there is a “special place in hell” for those who advocated Brexit “without a plan”. To angry Brexiteers, the statement epi ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-05
Democrats in the US Congress plan to unveil legislation on Wednesday to reinstate “net neutrality” rules that were repealed by the Trump administration in December 2017, Reuters reports, citing House ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-05
The failure of the Feb. 27-28 Donald Trump-Kim Jong-un summit in Hanoi to produce an agreement on denuclearization was largely the result of insufficient preparation by both the United States and Nort ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-04
US President Donald Trump said he has asked China to immediately remove all tariffs on US agricultural products because trade talks are progressing well, Reuters reports. “I have asked China to immedi ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-04
US President Donald Trump renewed criticism of the Federal Reserve and said the central bank’s tight monetary policy is contributing to a strong dollar and hurting America's competitiveness, Reuters r ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-04
The US House Judiciary Committee will begin investigations into possible obstruction of justice and abuse of power by President Donald Trump, the panel’s chairman said on Sunday. The committee will se ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-04
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo assured the Philippines on Friday it would come to its defense if it came under attack in the South China Sea, reaffirming a defense code that Manila’s security chief ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-01
The decision by MSCI to increase the weight of China’s A shares in its global benchmarks might seem momentous. After all, the market is huge, with some 3,500 stocks worth about US$8.5 trillion. But th ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-01
The United States is bent on crushing Huawei Technologies. It is lobbying allies not to use the Chinese telecommunications giant's 5G equipment, which it claims will open them to espionage or even cyb ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-01
The US economy expanded 2.9 percent in 2018, falling short of the Trump administration's 3 percent annual growth target despite US$1.5 trillion in tax cuts and a government spending blitz, Reuters rep ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-01
US President Donald Trump warned he could walk away from a trade deal with China if it were not good enough, even as his economic advisers touted “fantastic” progress toward an agreement to end a disp ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-01
A second summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un collapsed on Thursday over sanctions, and the two sides gave conflicting accounts of what happened, raising questi ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-01
US President Donald Trump said on Thursday his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un had failed to reach agreement due to North Korean demands to lift punishing US-led sanctions, Reuters reports ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-28
