Ever since Steve Bannon left the White House, US National Security Advisor John Bolton has replaced him as the No. 1 madman in President Donald Trump’s governing team. And although Bolton has a pretty ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-28
Last June, The Economist lamented that US President “Donald Trump is undermining the rules-based international order” as he seeks “short-term wins for America” at the cost of “long-term damage to the ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-28
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned members of the United Nations Security Council that they must “set the example” by enforcing sanctions on North Korea as China and Russia suggested the council ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-28
US President Donald Trump said he did not have a time frame for North Korea to denuclearize just as his secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, plans to visit Pyongyang again next month to set up a second su ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-27
US President Donald Trump accused China of seeking to meddle in the Nov. 6 US congressional elections, saying Beijing did not want his Republican Party to do well because of his pugnacious stance on t ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-27
The US Federal Reserve raised interest rates and left intact its plans to steadily tighten monetary policy, as it forecast that the US economy would enjoy at least three more years of growth, Reuters ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-27
Sports sponsorship has long been a commercial battlefield, and a global arms race has emerged over recent decades. Corporations from across the world have spent ever-increasing sums of money on the ri ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-26
US President Donald Trump’s top trade official said changing China’s economic policies to become more market-oriented “is not going to be easy” even with tariffs now in place on US$250 billion worth o ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-26
US President Donald Trump and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani exchanged taunts at the United Nations General Assembly with Trump vowing more sanctions against Tehran and Rouhani suggesting his Americ ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-26
The United States and China imposed new tit-for-tat tariffs against each other’s goods on Monday, the latest escalation in a heated trade war between the world’s two largest economies. US tariffs on U ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-24
A growing number of Asian manufacturers of products ranging from memory chips to machines tools are moving to shift production from China to other factories in the region in the wake of US President D ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-24
OPEC leader Saudi Arabia and its biggest oil-producer ally outside the group, Russia, ruled out any immediate, additional increase in crude output, effectively rebuffing US President Donald Trump’s ca ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-24
Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards vowed to exact “deadly and unforgettable” vengeance for an attack on a military parade that killed 25 people, including 12 of their comrades, and Tehran accused Gulf ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-24
Ten years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the unorthodox measures central banks took to douse the fires of the global financial crisis have left a smoldering terrain that still casts a pall ove ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-24
Next month, the US Department of the Treasury is due to submit to Congress its biannual report detailing which countries, if any, are manipulating their currencies to gain an unfair trade advantage. F ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-21
Chinese business tycoon Jack Ma, the co-founder of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, said on Thursday that people should make preparations for 20 years of China-US trade frictions. The economic situatio ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-21
The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on the Chinese military for buying fighter jets and missile systems from Russia, saying the purchases represent breach of a US sanctions law against Mos ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-21
