A US trade delegation arrived in Beijing on Thursday for key talks over tariffs, with Chinese state media saying China will stand up to US bullying if needed but that it was still better to hash thing ...More
EJ Insight2018-05-03
US President Donald Trump appears bent on going after Chinese high-tech firms. Following the export ban on ZTE Corp., it’s been reported that the US Justice Department has also launched a probe into H ...More
EJ Insight2018-05-03
Cambridge Analytica, the London-based consultancy at the center of the Facebook data misuse scandal, announced Wednesday that it is shutting down after suffering a sharp drop in business. The company ...More
EJ Insight2018-05-03
The inter-Korean summit meeting was political theater of a high order, where two heads of state expertly played their parts, including skipping back and forth between the line dividing their two count ...More
EJ Insight2018-05-03
The most likely outcome for tense US-China trade talks launching on Thursday is an agreement to keep talking, with US President Donald Trump maintaining his threat to press ahead with punitive tariffs ...More
EJ Insight2018-05-03
The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady and expressed confidence that inflation is moving closer to its target, leaving it on track to raise borrowing costs in June, Reuters reports. The upgrad ...More
EJ Insight2018-05-03
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今日信報時事評論EJ InsightFrank Ching2018年05月03日
(Updated; last posted at 10:03 a.m.) South Korea said on Wednesday the issue of US troops stationed in the South is unrelated to any future peace treaty with North Korea and that American forces shoul ...More
EJ Insight2018-05-02
Since the April 27 summit between South Korean President Moon Jae-in and his North Korean counterpart Kim Jong-un, US President Donald Trump has sought, unsurprisingly, to portray himself as the maste ...More
EJ Insight2018-05-02
US officials are pushing for quotas and "other restrictions" on steel and aluminum imports, a top trade official said on Tuesday after the White House announced a month-long extension of tariff exempt ...More
EJ Insight2018-05-02
Apple Inc. promised US$100 billion in additional stock buybacks and will raise dividend by 16 percent after reporting resilient iPhone sales in the face of waning global demand, Reuters reports. Apple ...More
EJ Insight2018-05-02
As America's newspapers run headlines about Trump's legal troubles and historic developments in the Korean peninsula, a small anniversary passes quietly. May 1, 2018 is the 120th anniversary of Americ ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-30
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un plans to invite experts and journalists from the United States and South Korea when the country shuts its nuclear test site in May, Reuters reports, citing Seoul offici ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-30
The Trump administration labeled 36 countries as inadequately protecting US intellectual property rights, keeping China on a priority watch list and adding Canada over concerns about its border contro ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-30
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in embraced after pledging on Friday to work for the “complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula,” punctuating a day of smile ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-27
The leaders of North and South Korea made their way to the heavily fortified demilitarized zone between the countries early on Friday for a landmark meeting aimed at improving inter-Korean relations a ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-27
French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday challenged many of the policies of his US counterpart, urging Donald Trump to engage more with the world and join the fight against climate change, among ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-26
In the past, trade wars used to focus on raw materials such as oil, metals and food. But in the digital era, targeting high-tech products is the best way to hurt your rival. US President Donald Trump ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-25
