US President Donald Trump on Tuesday floated a plan to fine ZTE and shake up its management as his administration considers rolling back more severe penalties that have crippled the Chinese telecoms f ...More
EJ Insight2018-05-23
The US House of Representatives on Tuesday passed bipartisan legislation that would ease bank rules introduced in the wake of the 2007-2009 financial crisis, Reuters reports. Approved 258-159, the bil ...More
EJ Insight2018-05-23
There can no longer be any doubt that “America First” means precisely that. In abandoning the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, US President Donald Trump rejected the advice of allies and showed an utter disreg ...More
EJ Insight2018-05-21
South Korean President Moon Jae-in and his American counterpart Donald Trump held discussions on Sunday to ensure that the North Korea-US summit remains on track after North Korea threatened to pull o ...More
EJ Insight2018-05-21
The US trade war with China is "on hold" as the two sides agreed to drop their tariff threats while they work on a wider agreement, US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said over the weekend. “We are ...More
EJ Insight2018-05-21
(Updated; last posted at 3:53 p.m.) China denied on Friday that it had offered a package to slash the US trade deficit by up to US$200 billion, hours after it dropped an anti-dumping probe into US sor ...More
EJ Insight2018-05-18
Just when people thought peace and stability would soon reign on the Korean peninsula, things took a swift and unexpected turn across the 38th parallel, as North Korea suddenly called off a high-level ...More
EJ Insight2018-05-18
US President Donald Trump said Chinese President Xi Jinping “could be influencing” North Korean leader Kim Jong-un after Pyongyang suddenly shifted to a sharp, negative tone this week about the prospe ...More
EJ Insight2018-05-18
China has offered US President Donald Trump a US$200 billion package of proposed purchases of American goods and other measures aimed at reducing the US trade deficit with China, Reuters reports, citi ...More
EJ Insight2018-05-18
In the summer of 2017, Qatar suddenly faced an all-out diplomatic boycott spearheaded by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and a few other Arab states such as Bahrain. One year on, it appea ...More
EJ Insight2018-05-17
As US President Donald Trump ponders his next moves in the high-stakes chess game on the Korean peninsula before meeting North Korean leader Kim Jong-un next month (if the summit actually takes place ...More
EJ Insight2018-05-17
How might US President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal, also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), impact oil prices? And if prices go higher, how could ...More
EJ Insight2018-05-17
The US Senate voted on Wednesday in favor of keeping open-internet rules in a bid to overturn a Federal Communications Commission decision to repeal the net neutrality regime, Reuters reports. The 52 ...More
EJ Insight2018-05-17
The United States and China will resume trade talks on Thursday in a bid to avert a damaging tariff war, Reuters reports, citing senior Trump administration officials. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchi ...More
EJ Insight2018-05-17
China has reacted strongly to the White House for characterizing its insistence that US air carriers remove references on their websites or in other materials suggesting that Taiwan, Hong Kong and Mac ...More
EJ Insight2018-05-17
US President Donald Trump said it was unclear if his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un would go ahead after Pyongyang threatened to pull out of the unprecedented meeting, Reuters reports. No ...More
EJ Insight2018-05-17
