China and the United States will hold vice ministerial level trade talks in Beijing on Jan. 7-8, as the two sides look to end a dispute that is inflicting increasing pain on both economies and roiling ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-04
US President Donald Trump said he has received a “great” letter from North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and will probably meet him again in the not-too-distant future as part of efforts to persuade him t ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-03
US President Donald Trump played down the stock market’s drop at the end of 2018, calling it a “glitch” and saying the market will again go up once various trade deals are settled, Reuters reports. T ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-03
Patrick Shanahan was thrust into the spotlight during his debut as acting US defense secretary on Wednesday, sitting next to President Donald Trump as he publicly disparaged Shanahan’s predecessor, la ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-03
As far as Gulf leaders are concerned, US President Donald Trump demonstrated with his announced US troop withdrawals from Syria and Afghanistan that his insistence that the “world is a dangerous place ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-02
A retired US Marine detained by Russia on spying charges was visiting Moscow for a wedding and is innocent, Reuters quoted his family as saying on Tuesday. Paul Whelan had been staying with a wedding ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-02
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said he is ready to meet US President Donald Trump again anytime to achieve their common goal of denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula, but warned he may have to take an ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-02
The global economy, which has been doing fairly well, is likely to become even less synchronized and more fragmented. This would continue a trend that began in earnest in 2018 as market returns turned ...More
EJ Insight2018-12-31
China’s factory activity contracted in December for the first time in more than two years, in a further sign of slackening demand and rising pressure on the world’s second-largest economy as it heads ...More
EJ Insight2018-12-31
Last Wednesday, US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania paid an unannounced visit to the Al Asad Air Base in Iraq and met with American troops. No matter whether you like Trump or not, you do ...More
EJ Insight2018-12-31
In one of my previous articles, I wrote about fading hopes in relation to the future of the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq. Now, the outlook for the Kurdish movement has suddenly even grim ...More
EJ Insight2018-12-31
Financial markets have finally awoken to the fact that Donald Trump is US president. Given that the world has endured two years of reckless tweets and public statements by the world’s most powerful ma ...More
EJ Insight2018-12-31
A landmark 11-country trade deal, a revamped version of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), came into force on Sunday with New Zealand’s trade minister hailing the opportunities it presented for expo ...More
EJ Insight2018-12-31
US President Donald Trump said on Twitter that he had a “long and very good call” with Chinese President Xi Jinping and that a possible trade deal between the United States and China was progressing w ...More
EJ Insight2018-12-31
The US-China trade war resulted in billions of dollars of losses for both sides in 2018, hitting industries including autos, technology – and above all, agriculture. Broad pain from trade tariffs outl ...More
EJ Insight2018-12-31
Intellectual property rights cases can from next month be taken to China’s Supreme Court as the country seeks to strengthen protections in the face of complaints from the United States about the issue ...More
EJ Insight2018-12-31
"In this field of conflicts and sentiments I find delight" -- Samuel Johnson It has not been a good year to be christened Teresa. Leave aside the tribulations of Mrs. May, let us consider Ms. Cheng ...More
EJ Insight2018-12-28
President Donald Trump is considering an executive order in the new year to declare a national emergency that would bar U.S. companies from using telecommunications equipment made by China’s Huawei an ...More
EJ Insight2018-12-28
