In January 1979, the then 74-year-old Deng Xiaoping, survivor of repeated political purges to become China’s leader after the death of Mao Zedong, met in Beijing with American journalists to mark the ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-28
The Trump administration on Sunday lifted sanctions on aluminum giant Rusal and other Russian firms linked to oligarch Oleg Deripaska, despite a Democratic-led push in the US Congress to maintain the ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-28
US government agencies that had largely shuttered operations for five weeks during a budget standoff are preparing to resume operations and compensate employees for missed paychecks. It comes after Pr ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-28
The United States sent two warships through the Taiwan Strait on Thursday in the first such operation this year, risking further heightening tensions with China, Reuters reports. Reacting to the move, ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-25
A renewed nuclear arms race, rising greenhouse gas emissions and the emergence of state-sponsored disinformation campaigns have left the modern world as close to annihilation as it was at the height o ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-25
The United States and China are “miles and miles” from resolving trade issues but there is a fair chance the two countries will get a deal, US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said. A 30-member Chinese ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-25
US President Donald Trump said in a late night Tweet on Wednesday that he would delay a State of the Union address until the government shutdown was over, responding to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s mo ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-24
China’s economy can maintain sustainable rates of growth despite global uncertainties, Vice President Wang Qishan said, days after the world’s second-largest economy posted its weakest expansion in ne ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-24
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un spoke highly of US President Donald Trump, expressing satisfaction over results of recent talks between the country’s delegation and US officials to discuss the second ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-24
Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido declared himself interim president on Wednesday, winning the backing of Washington and many Latin American nations and prompting socialist Nicolas Maduro, who ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-24
US President Donald Trump said he will hold an alternative event to the State of the Union address after Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi barred him from speaking in the House of Representatives until t ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-24
A top executive from Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd being held in Canada can make “strong arguments” against extradition to the United States, in part due to President Donald Trump’s politicization of th ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-24
The partial shutdown of the US federal government has persisted for about a month now, the longest on record. Unfortunately, it seems there is still no end in sight for the political stalemate between ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-23
The populist revolts in the United States and the United Kingdom have each reached a critical juncture. At the start of his third year in office, US President Donald Trump is presiding over the longe ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-23
One of 20 undeclared ballistic missile operating bases in North Korea serves as a missile headquarters, according to a report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). “The Sino-r ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-22
