News has emerged that Hong Kong officials have been meeting with their mainland Chinese counterparts in seeking to arrange for the reopening of “borders” between the mainland and Hong Kong. Long overd ...More
EJ Insight2021-11-22
I could vividly recall that day, when a Mandarin-speaking banker was encircled and surrounded by a group of virulent, acrimonious protesters (or pedestrians?) in Central. That was an otherwise rather ...More
EJ Insight2021-11-16
“A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men from doing the things men have always done.” – The Things Th ...More
EJ Insight2021-11-15
COP26 is ongoing - that much is clear, from the news. A summit of leading voices on climate change, Earth sciences, geoengineering and terraforming and – of course – how could we miss them? “World lea ...More
EJ Insight2021-11-11
It is tempting to measure ourselves against others, on the basis of our accomplishments. After all, unlike wealth and income, accomplishments have that veneer of desert attached to them – we tend to s ...More
EJ Insight2021-11-08
A recent survey conducted by the Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups found that over a half of secondary school students surveyed showed signs of depression. Teens are finding it hard to concentrate ...More
EJ Insight2021-11-04
Much has been said – perhaps too much – on the state of Hong Kong politics subsequent to the series of reforms rolled out last and this year. A less investigated question, perhaps, concerns the prospe ...More
EJ Insight2021-10-27
We’re in the midst of arguably one of the worst pandemics in our lifetimes. Not only has COVID-19 left an indelible mark on global politics, international relations, and, indeed, our average lifespans ...More
EJ Insight2021-10-18
October 10, 2021 was World Mental Health Awareness Day. That we opt to “remember” or – dare I say – ritualise – our understanding and attention paid to mental health awareness is a welcome first step. ...More
EJ Insight2021-10-13
Contemporary society constructs itself as revolving around and predicated upon the notion of recognition. Recognition by one’s family and relatives – as quantified and concretised through relations an ...More
EJ Insight2021-10-11
Much of this has been litigated and opined on to the point of death – but I’ll say it again: Hong Kong’s quarantine policy is ill-equipped for the rapidly shifting circumstances and evolving condition ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-17
These are tough times to be a genuinely erudite scholar. Social media platforms glamourise the instant – as if the speed of consumption and consumability had anything to do with the quality of the inf ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-15
Shang-Chi (played by Simu Liu in this enthralling, ambitious debut) is, in many ways, an uncharacteristic Marvel/Hollywood superhero. He is not white – for starters (obviously); though with the increa ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-09
Definition of a townhall (from the Cambridge English Dictionary): “a public meeting at which a politician or official speaks about his or her policies and answers questions from members of the public. ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-27
The administration recently tightened entry rules for arrivals from 16 countries swept up in the resurgence of COVID-19, extending the length of the mandatory quarantine requirements to 21 days. Many ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-23
The UN Secretary-General termed it a “code red for humanity”. The official IPCC statement declared that “climate change is widespread, rapid, and intensifying.” Above all, evidence ranging from the fl ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-12
The past few years have seen Hong Kong weather some of the most difficult moments in its history – as a city, but also as a collective. From the sociopolitical unrest and large-scale protests, to the ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-05
Michael Sandel once penned a book, named “What Money Can’t Buy”. In it, he makes the argument that the introduction of money and the market into particular spheres would inevitably corrode the integri ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-04
If there is one thing that would be unironically uncontroversial to individuals across the political spectrum – it’d almost certainly be the “fact” that Hong Kong’s education system is in need of refo ...More
EJ Insight2021-07-30
The argument that speech must be free, must be unfettered, and must be protected at all costs – is by no means innovative. Yet at times when free speech is experiencing an active decline – under a com ...More
EJ Insight2021-07-26
