China’s ambitious “One Belt One Road” initiative should start from Southeast Asian nations in order to make big progress. Southeast Asian nations are more developed than other nations along the routes ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-22
The Communist Party’s agitprop operatives have been busy stoking public indignation over the South China Sea arbitration ruling last week. But don’t think the Chinese people, while condemning the “far ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-22
While the Hague ruling on the South China Sea dispute has remained the focus of international attention, another new development in East Asia has largely gone under the public radar. This is the concl ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-22
South Korean electronics giant Samsung Electronics has acquired a 2 percent stake in Chinese electric-vehicle and battery maker BYD Co. in a deal worth US$455 million. According to a regulatory filing ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-22
Anti-US protests have erupted in several cities in the Chinese mainland, a week after an international tribunal ruled against China over its territorial claims in the South China Sea. The protests tar ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-21
... ds in the South China Sea. It is almost certain Beijing will oppose any move to widen its powers. This article appeared in the Hong Kong Economic Journal on July 20 Translation by Alan Lee [Chinese ve ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-21
... ansformed Southbank from a dreary collection of unfriendly buildings into one of the liveliest neighbourhoods in the city. There are plenty of examples of good waterfronts right here at home. Cheung C ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-21
US military forces will continue to operate in the South China Sea in accordance with international law. Chief of Naval Operations John Richardson reaffirmed the US stance during a visit to a Chinese ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-21
... ntral and South America. The local market imports the fruit from Colombia and Ecuador. Translation by Chloe Chow -- Contact us at [email protected] CC/DY/CG ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-20
A senior Chinese official said there is no boycott of foreign products in the wake of a recent ruling by an international tribunal on the South China Sea arbitration case. Deputy Minister of Commerce ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-20
The Philippines is refusing to negotiate with China over their South China Sea dispute because of Beijing's insistence that a court ruling that nullified most of its claims be left off the table. Phil ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-20
Two years ago, in my article on the South China Sea arbitration case, I stressed that it was the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA), rather than the much more well-known International Court of Justi ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-20
... port just south of the capital Taipei, for their flight back to China when the accident happened. The driver and the tour guide, both from Taiwan, were also killed. "The fire moved very fast. All 26 d ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-20
... on in the South China Sea has eased after the Philippines agreed to launch bilateral talks with China. The failed military coup in Turkey has also reduced the geopolitical risks triggered by “Black Sw ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-19
... rs in the South China Sea. Last week, Reichler, a partner at US law firm Foley Hoag, achieved another landmark victory as lawyer for Uruguay in a case filed by tobacco giant Philip Morris against the ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-19
... ms to the South China Sea groundless, netizens described it as "not a single dot less". The phrase echoes a People's Daily post about China's disputed "nine-dash line" in the disputed waters. -- Conta ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-19
Beijing will ignore the verdict handed down against it last week at the Hague and will continue to develop disputed islands in the South China Sea, first for tourism, and then send more civilian settl ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-19
China will continue build structures on disputed islands in the South China Sea, regardless of foreign opposition. Navy chief Adm. Wu Shengli told his visiting US counterpart, Adm. John Richardson, th ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-19
... s, citing South Korean military officials. "The ballistic missiles flight went from 500 kilometers to 600 kilometers, which is a distance far enough to strike all of South Korea including Busan," the ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-19
China was humiliated when a special tribunal rejected its claims to disputed waters in the South China Sea. But from the beginning, Beijing made it clear it would not be bound by any decision. Nonethe ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-18
