For the first time in more than three decades, a senior ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightFrank Ching2017年11月30日
For the first time in more than three decades, a senior Chinese official has defined Hong Kong's "high degree of autonomy" as joint administration by the central and local governments, with Beijing al ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-27
Japan and China are experiencing a definite, if limited, thaw in their relations. Up until last week, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who assumed office in December 2012, had only met Chinese Pres ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-20
President Xi Jinping gave Donald Trump unprecedented “state visit plus” treatment during the US leader’s three-day visit to China, which was hailed as “successful and historic”, with a display of affa ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-16
President Xi Jinping gave Donald Trump unprecedented "s ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightFrank Ching2017年11月16日
Shinzo Abe’s stunning electoral victory last month won him a fourth term as Japan’s prime minister and raises his chances of becoming the longest-serving government leader since World War II. It also ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-06
China is basking in the interest that the whole world i ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightFrank Ching2017年11月02日
China is basking in the interest that the whole world is taking in the 19th congress of its Communist Party and pondering the weighty speech delivered by General Secretary Xi Jinping, who was given th ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-30
The speech delivered by Xi Jinping at the opening of the Chinese Communist Party's 19th congress last week makes it clear that China is preparing itself for a much bigger role on the world stage, and ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-23
Relations between China and Japan have taken a sudden t ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightFrank Ching2017年10月19日
The long-expected 19th Congress of the Communist Party of China will be held in Beijing next week and the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, is expected to emerge with an even tighter grip on the levers of p ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-16
Relations between China and Japan have taken a sudden turn for the better after Prime Minister Shinzō Abe paid an unprecedented visit to the Chinese embassy in Tokyo to take part in China’s national d ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-09
Advocates of Hong Kong independence are intolerable, Zhang Xiaoming said last week on his first day as director of the State Council’s Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office in Beijing. “What is Hong Kong ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-03
High drama was the order of the day at the United Nations General Assembly this past week when first Donald Trump promised to “totally destroy” North Korea if the US has to defend itself or its allies ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-25
Last week, China’s official People’s Daily published an essay by Foreign Minister Wang Yi praising China’s achievements in human rights ever since President Xi Jinping assumed power in 2012. “Only the ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-21
Last week, China's official People's Daily published an ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightFrank Ching2017年09月21日
North Korea’s accelerated campaign to develop nuclear weapons capable of hitting North America may be riling the United States but it is striking real fear into the hearts of many in Japan, especially ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-11
More than 20 years ago, in the run-up to Hong Kong’s handover to China, rumors were rife that the city was finished. Fortune magazine published the infamous The Death of Hong Kong article. Books appea ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-04
In Japan as in China, there is a tradition of officials being chosen from members of politically prominent families for senior positions and, often, those politicians exhibit similar political leaning ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-28
A year after China lost an arbitration case brought against it by the Philippines under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea regarding their dispute in the South China Sea, China has emerged the vi ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-21