The US Federal Reserve kept interest rates unchanged but characterized the economy as strong, keeping the central bank on track to increase borrowing costs in September, Reuters reports. The Fed on We ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-02
Less than two months after Donald Trump completed his f ...全文
今日信報時事評論STRAIGHT-SHOOTING褚簡寧 Michael Chugani2018年08月02日
The Trump administration plans to propose slapping a 25 percent tariff on US$200 billion of imported Chinese goods after initially setting them at 10 percent, in a bid to pressure Beijing into making ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-01
Facebook Inc. said it has identified a new coordinated political influence campaign to mislead its users and sow dissension among voters ahead of the US congressional elections in November, Reuters re ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-01
President Donald Trump again attacked Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russia and the 2016 US election, reiterating that his campaign did not collude with Moscow and saying collusion is not ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-01
US spy satellites have detected renewed activity at the North Korean factory that produced the country’s first intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of reaching the United States, a senior US of ...More
EJ Insight2018-07-31
Social media giants Facebook and Twitter saw their shares tumble last week after they reported sharp declines in active users and weak business prospects. The immediate challenge for these tech compan ...More
EJ Insight2018-07-31
What was at first a trade skirmish – with US President Donald Trump imposing tariffs on steel and aluminum – appears to be quickly morphing into a full-scale trade war with China. If the truce agreed ...More
EJ Insight2018-07-31
On July 25, when US President Donald Trump appeared in front of the White House with Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission, their joint statement and spoken remarks surprised m ...More
EJ Insight2018-07-31
US President Donald Trump has offered to meet Iran’s leader without preconditions to discuss how to improve ties after he pulled the United States out of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, Reuters reports. “ ...More
EJ Insight2018-07-31
China on Monday offered to hold talks on a free trade deal with the United Kingdom after its exit from the European Union, reaching out to London as Beijing remains mired in a trade war with Washingto ...More
EJ Insight2018-07-30
In 2012, Germany launched the concept of "Industry 4.0" in its manufacturing sector. Three years later, China implemented a similar initiative, dubbed "Made in China 2025" plan, to modernize the count ...More
EJ Insight2018-07-30
Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge fund, bewailed that the average statistics hardly reflect the real conditions. For instance, the average statistics show that th ...More
EJ Insight2018-07-30
While having lunch with an Asian diplomat a couple of weeks ago, I happened to mention the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, which comprises the United States, Japan, India and Australia and is commonl ...More
EJ Insight2018-07-30
Officials from Canada, the European Union, Japan, Mexico and South Korea will meet this week to discuss their response to US threats to impose tariffs on autos and car parts, Reuters reports, citing p ...More
EJ Insight2018-07-30
The administration of US President Donald Trump is working to develop consumer data privacy policies, and the Commerce Department is meeting with big companies like Facebook Inc., Comcast Corp and Alp ...More
EJ Insight2018-07-30
The United States and the European Union have agreed to work towards zero tariff, thus avoiding an all-out trade war. Also, it seems US President Donald Trump is looking at another version of the Tran ...More
EJ Insight2018-07-30
