When it comes to the United States Congress, nothing is ever over until it’s over. But as of late July, it looks as though two major pieces of legislation will soon be on President Joe Biden’s desk, a ...More
EJ Insight2022-08-08
At this year’s Aspen Security Forum (which I co-chair) in July, China’s ambassador to the United States, Qin Gang, appealed for better understanding of his country. But there was considerable debate a ...More
EJ Insight2022-08-05
... e western side of the Dnipro River, supplied primarily over a big bridge, which long-range Ukrainian missile strikes recently rendered unusable. No supplies, ammunition, or fresh troops can reach the ...More
EJ Insight2022-08-04
... sewhere. Aside from food and energy price increases, the bulk of the inflation was originally caused by demand. But even if supply issues were more to blame – as others have argued – we would still be ...More
EJ Insight2022-08-03
... stronger side of its trading band) in 2021 when Hong Kong-listed equities saw outflows due to regulatory risks, before weakening recently and touching 7.85 (the weaker side of the band) on multiple o ...More
EJ Insight2022-07-26
... h various side and back doors that will likely become increasingly important as long as the sanctions regime, as currently designed, continues. Nonetheless, it is only a matter of time before the Russ ...More
EJ Insight2022-07-22
... e product side – that is, by adding up the sectors in which goods and services are sold. Using that measure, annual US GDP growth was negative in the first quarter, at -1.6%. But growth can also be me ...More
EJ Insight2022-07-20
... n• Cost Besides, the platform can be extended to include year round extracurricular activities and tutoring to maintain a stable service throughout the year. Currently, there are societies in Hong Kon ...More
EJ Insight2022-07-18
... the wrong side of the tracks.” If new challengers had not expanded access to mobility and financial services, these practices would have remained the norm. Similarly, banking deserts long existed in a ...More
EJ Insight2022-07-08
... e war. Consider how the world would react if Russia were to use nuclear weapons against civilian populations anywhere. The horror of that atrocity would immediately result in every country with a cons ...More
EJ Insight2022-07-06
... 被稱為「側門效應」(side-door effect),亦即18至24歲此群組多數不以app或網站這類較正式的 ...全文
The Zero-Covid policy has forced nearly a quarter of European companies in China to consider moving current or planned investments to other countries. Only five per cent of them support the government ...More
EJ Insight2022-06-20
... brushed aside by juridical structures that seemingly favoured the voices and interests of men. It would not be erroneous to characterise the contemporary court system as skewed in favour of those who ...More
EJ Insight2022-06-14
... 邊?》(Which Side Are You On?)的歌曲,講述她的丈夫作為礦工工會領袖,在肯塔基州哈蘭(H ...全文
... the wrong side of history. Its state media refuse to speak of an “invasion”, but use the Russian term “special military operation”. It refuses to condemn neither the invasion nor the war crimes commit ...More
EJ Insight2022-06-06
... se of one side. Interpreting a secretive dictator’s mindset is never easy, and we may never know precisely what power dynamics are playing out in the Kremlin. But it is reasonable to assume that Putin ...More
EJ Insight2022-06-02
... ntries considerable latitude on capital-control policies, and that a future IMF Board might suddenly change course and try to constrain what countries could do. The IMF’s job is to prevent national po ...More
EJ Insight2022-05-18
... ussian President Vladimir Putin’s hired hands. Acknowledging that five decades of Ostpolitik left a difficult legacy, Habermas defended Scholz against the charge that he has been too cautious in confr ...More
EJ Insight2022-05-17
... aching on side), I'm of the view that there exists a pe ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightBrian Wong2022年05月17日