The US will need to maintain the threat of tariffs on Chinese goods for years even if Washington and Beijing strike a deal to end the current trade row, according to US Trade Representative (USTR) Rob ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-28
US President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen accused him of breaking the law whil0e in office and said for the first time that Trump knew in advance about a WikiLeaks dump of stole ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-28
US President Donald Trump hailed “a very special relationship” with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un as they met in Vietnam for a second summit on Wednesday and said he was satisfied with the pace of d ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-28
Most Hong Kong people would agree it is agonizing to watch budget speeches by our financial secretaries. They last too long, are read out in monotone, and are written in the most unimaginative way pos ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-28
Most Hong Kong people would agree it is agonizing to wa ...全文
今日信報時事評論STRAIGHT-SHOOTING褚簡寧 Michael Chugani2019年02月28日
The US Commerce Department said it will open a new anti-dumping probe to determine whether fabricated structural steel from Canada, China and Mexico is being sold at below fair value, Reuters reports. ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-27
AT&T Inc. emerged victorious over the Trump administration’s drawn-out attempts to block its US$85.4 billion purchase of Time Warner as the US Justice Department said it would not fight an appeals ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-27
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell told US lawmakers the US central bank is in “no rush to make a judgment” about further changes to interest rates, Reuters reports. In two hours of testimony to t ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-27
US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un meet on Wednesday for their second summit, betting that their personal relationship can break a stalemate over the North’s nuclear weapons ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-27
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un arrived in Vietnam on Tuesday, after traveling from Pyongyang by his heavily armored train, for his second summit with US President Donald Trump starting on Wednesday. ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-26
Evidence for man-made global warming has reached a “gold standard” level of certainty, adding pressure for cuts in greenhouse gases to limit rising temperatures, Reuters reports, citing a scientific ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-26
During the heyday of the Chinese empire, representatives of vassal states had to go through elaborate rituals, including the infamous kowtow procedure known as “three kneelings and nine prostrations” ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-26
The United States targeted Venezuela’s government with new sanctions on Monday and called on allies to freeze the assets of its state-owned oil company PDVSA after deadly violence blocked humanitarian ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-26
US President Donald Trump headed for Vietnam on Monday for a second summit with Kim Jong-un, having stressed the benefits to Pyongyang if the North Korean leader gives up his nuclear weapons, but sayi ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-26
Trade negotiations between the United States and China are closing in on the March 1 deadline, after which the bilateral tariff war will resume – beginning with an increase from 10 percent to 25 per ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-25
China’s Huawei Technologies on Sunday welcomed comments from President Donald Trump about the future of US mobile communications and asserted the company's position as a world-leading smartphone produ ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-25
