... orted a lower-than-expected interim result with higher provisions and no dividend in sight. HSBC is ranked one of the worst performers in the blue-chip index, having fallen 44 per cent year-to-date. T ...More
EJ Insight2020-08-05
... ivalry between the United States and China for supremacy in artificial intelligence (AI). The scene that has been revealed should alarm Americans. China is not just on a trajectory to overtake the US; ...More
EJ Insight2020-08-05
Hong Kong remains a leading commercial hub for cross-border transactions, particularly involving Mainland China. With an established and trustworthy English-Chinese bilingual legal system as well as i ...More
EJ Insight2020-08-04
... product. We prioritize by looking into customers’ pain points and understand what functions they most desire. Having set the direction, this leads to more effective communication among team members a ...More
EJ Insight2020-08-04
A Hong Kong asset manager has proposed building “International Charter Cities” (ICCs) in western countries to receive hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong people who want to emigrate. Ivan Ko (高廣垣) is c ...More
EJ Insight2020-08-03
... ess is answering the question whether prosecution will serve the public’s interests. More complex and nuanced is where other issues have to be taken into consideration. The multiplicity of circumstanc ...More
EJ Insight2020-08-03
... r twice a week, with quick results), while everyone else will effectively not be tested (because results obtained after more than three days are of negligible value). This arrangement is not only huge ...More
EJ Insight2020-08-03
... alries between the US and four revisionist powers are escalating; and the real-world costs of climate change and other environmental trends are mounting.” Since February, the COVID-19 outbreak in Chin ...More
EJ Insight2020-07-31
... patible. “We can combine any two of the three, but never have all three simultaneously and in full.”To see how social, economic, and national security policies are entangled in this trilemma, consider ...More
EJ Insight2020-07-31
Last week, the US Department of State ordered the closure of the Chinese Consulate in Houston, only to be followed by Pompeo’s historic speech, “Communist China and the Free World’s Future”. Few would ...More
EJ Insight2020-07-30
... flix last week. Watching it a second time five years later made me understand how naïve I was about communist China. Rather than far-fetched, Ten Years has turned out to be frighteningly real in many ...More
EJ Insight2020-07-30
... nged. Now we can access daily data for regionalized Covid-19 infection rates to more clearly comprehend the exogenous threat to the economy. Over a few months, we can also monitor daily mobility data ...More
EJ Insight2020-07-30
... smission. We can, and must, do better, by launching a bold new investment program for planetary health. The near-universal focus on health prompted by the pandemic presents an opportunity to mobilize ...More
EJ Insight2020-07-30
