On January 13, Lai Ching-te is set to become president of Taiwan, marking the first time that the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has won the post for a third consecutive term. Latest opinion polls ...More
EJ Insight2024-01-04
On January 13, Lai Ching-te is set to become president ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightMark O’Neill2024年01月04日
The existence of “women’s issues” reflects the simple fact that we live in a man’s world. Over the course of centuries, research and policies focused on men became the default, whereas initiatives tha ...More
EJ Insight2024-01-02
In their 2019 election manifesto, the British Conservative Party promised to cut annual immigration to less than 220,000 a year. In May 2023, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak promised to reduce it to below ...More
EJ Insight2023-12-29
There’s a story I very much enjoyed telling some of my debating students – back when I was an active coach. Consider a close circle of friends, Bob, Mary, Sue, and Thornton. Through years of fraternis ...More
EJ Insight2023-12-27
Those who know me would know that I have long been a fervent advocate of promoting competitive debating – in both English and Chinese – across China, including, of course, in Hong Kong. Yet debating i ...More
EJ Insight2023-11-08
Bank capital is back in the financial headlines. In late July, US banking regulators, led by the Federal Reserve, announced plans to finalize the so-called Basel 3 reforms (which banks like to call Ba ...More
EJ Insight2023-09-27
The first debate between the Republican Party’s candidates for next year’s US presidential election revealed major schisms over foreign policy. While former US Vice President Mike Pence and former US ...More
EJ Insight2023-09-06
There has been much handwringing about the retreat of democracy and the rise of authoritarianism in recent years – and for good reason. From Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to former Brazilian P ...More
EJ Insight2023-09-05
Behind today’s global disorder are two related narratives about countries’ relative strengths and weaknesses in the competition for global power. One is about the long-term rise and fall of nations an ...More
EJ Insight2023-09-04
In the debate about how to curb global warming, climate action is often confused for climate justice. Many European countries (including the United Kingdom) have taken to self-flagellation, atoning fo ...More
EJ Insight2023-09-01
US President Joe Biden’s recent executive order restricting American investments in Chinese semiconductors, microelectronics, quantum information technology, and artificial intelligence marks another ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-31
As the world grapples with an unprecedented confluence of devastating floods, wildfires, and droughts, the debate about how to address the escalating climate crisis is increasingly distorted by big-bu ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-30
The 2008 financial crisis in the United States kicked off a debt supercycle, which spread to Europe in 2010 and has recently engulfed many of the world’s low-income and lower-middle-income countries. ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-18
Since the release of ChatGPT to the public late last year, generative AI has seen an exponential rate of adoption. The major breakthrough behind these models is the transformer architecture (first dev ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-10
I had the pleasure of watching ‘Barbie’ - by myself - earlier this week. Truth be told, I went in with relatively low expectations. I have a general aversion to movie hypes and hyped-up movies, and ha ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-09
Asian countries’ ability to thrive in the world economy over the next few decades hinges on their capacity to sustain their competitive advantages through continuous innovation. But to meet their comm ...More
EJ Insight2023-07-19
Covid-19 was the catalyst for a seismic shift in the way people work. The pandemic turbo-charged a revolution that was already underway, proving that technology can support productivity anywhere. At t ...More
EJ Insight2023-06-27
