The agreement announced between the British government and the European Union has been received in the United Kingdom with criticism from all sides. The defenders of staying in the European Union cons ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-21
A UN-backed court found two leaders of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge guilty of genocide on Friday, almost four decades after the ultra-Maoist regime which oversaw the “Killing Fields” was overthrown, Reuters ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-16
It has been less than a month since I came back from meeting clients in Hong Kong and Singapore. The mood I encountered there was one of caution, with talk about the future path of the US dollar and i ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-12
A former US Marine combat veteran opened fire in a bar and grill in Thousand Oaks, California on Wednesday night, killing 12 people in a mass shooting that is bound to revive the debate on gun control ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-09
The Legislative Council on Wednesday began debate on a motion of thanks in relation to Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor's 2018 Policy Address, with most of the discussion focused, as expecte ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-08
For anyone still undecided about the consequences of global warming, the summer of 2018, one of the hottest on record, should have tipped the scales. Across far-flung longitudes and latitudes, regions ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-07
Hong Kong saw two key infrastructure facilities put into operation within the span of a month. One was the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link (XRL) and the other was the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-M ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-02
The United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union is rapidly unraveling. The "Chequers plan" upon which British Prime Minister Theresa May has based her negotiating strategy is dead on arrival. ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-02
Far from settling the question of the United Kingdom’s future, the 2016 Brexit referendum and subsequent negotiations with the European Union have triggered a full-blown identity crisis and culture wa ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-01
In March, US President Donald Trump tweeted that “when a country (USA) is losing many billions of dollars on trade with virtually every country it does business with, trade wars are good, and easy to ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-29
With a stock market that has fallen by over 15 percent this year and a currency reaching its 10-year lows, Chinese authorities have been bombarding the media with announcements of the various measures ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-26
Beijing’s market rescue efforts fueled a rally in A shares and the Hong Kong market. It was short-lived, however. Both markets fell again on Tuesday, reflecting fragile market sentiment. President Xi ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-25
Pan-democratic lawmakers on Tuesday moved two motions at a Legco panel meeting calling for a halt to the government's controversial Lantau land reclamation plan, but were voted down by the establishme ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-24
The Shanghai market posted a strong rally of 4.1 percent on Monday as expected, while the Hang Seng Index gained 2.3 percent. Whether if it will prove to be a short-lived rebound or a trend reversal w ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-23
Are state-owned enterprises (SOEs) expanding at the expense of the private sector in China? There has been a lot of debate on this issue. Even top officials seem to have rather different opinions as r ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-18
Thousands took to the streets on Sunday to oppose a government plan to build artificial islands in Lantau waters through large-scale reclamation as part of efforts to boost land supply for housing. Po ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-15
Vice President Wang Qishan will travel to Israel to attend the fourth China-Israel Innovation Committee conference next week. He is the highest-ranking Chinese to visit the country since then Presiden ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-15
To watch the debate play out in America’s news media, it would seem that the opposite of “America First” is American interventionism: a chronic penchant for leaping, to no apparent end, into wars of c ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-09
Americans William Nordhaus and Paul Romer, pioneers in adapting the western economic growth model to focus on environmental issues and sharing the benefits of technology, won the 2018 Nobel Economics ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-09
