... anization may well be coming to an end. Following the latest G20 summit, the G7 should be thinking seriously about deepening its own ties with more non-aligned countries. If the Ukraine war drags on, ...More
EJ Insight2023-09-21
... measures may prove indispensable. Local journalism plays a vital role in protecting democracy. But to protect both, we urgently need more business innovation, philanthropic investment, and public sup ...More
EJ Insight2023-09-20
... dividuals may seem absurd in retrospect - immoral in the former case, and indirectly contributory towards the shambolic evacuation procedures adopted by the cruise that evening. Groupthink drives us t ...More
EJ Insight2023-09-18
... d workers may get 71 extra hours of sleep per year - and are able to exercise for 90 minutes longer weekly - than they did pre-pandemic. The study asked 2000 workers about lifestyle changes they’d exp ...More
EJ Insight2023-09-14
... nvestment may only be able to cover the national expressway with the mileage of about 177,000 kilometers, accounting for just 3.3% of the total mileage of highways of the country. Considering those in ...More
EJ Insight2023-09-12
... evolution may not always be towards more morality, more ethics, or more socially defined covenants and constraints. Yet in the longer run, the arc of social development and evolution does seemingly be ...More
EJ Insight2023-09-12
... jobs. We may think that it is part and parcel, and most reasonable, to expect that those elected - directly or otherwise - to fend for our public interests, should be willing to not just speak up, bu ...More
EJ Insight2023-09-11
... ’s noodle may be another man’s niggle. It behoves everyone to have most serious regard to the potential for the colour yellow giving inadvertent offence. From now on, public displays of Van Gogh’s Sun ...More
EJ Insight2023-09-07
... lk tea in May and Louis Vuitton along with another coffee brand Manner for opening pop-up bookshops in June. So, what next? Expect Moutai chocolate, soft ice followed by the ice stick it launched in s ...More
EJ Insight2023-09-06
... er, China may conclude that taking such risks pay off – a lesson that will not have been lost on the rest of the world, either. Those arguing that America does not have an important national interest ...More
EJ Insight2023-09-06
... sts BRICS may attempt to end the pricing of oil and gas in dollars. Even before the expansion, BRICS was slightly larger than the G7 western economies in purchasing power parity terms. With the additi ...More
EJ Insight2023-09-05
... ss, Sunak may have found it harder to buck the trend. But, hypocrisy aside, MBS’s upcoming visit to London shatters any illusion that the UK can provide the moral leadership required to defend democra ...More
EJ Insight2023-09-01
... The above may seem truistically and deceptively simple, yet most commentators - especially given the increasingly charged discursive atmosphere on the international level - tend to conveniently omit t ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-31
... ver, this may not matter for USD-CHF, so the pair could move higher in the near term. The longer-term picture for the Swiss franc remains unchanged, largely reflecting the differences in inflation dyn ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-31
... new jobs may emerge by 2027 to meet a new division of labour between human and AI machines. The latter will focus on tasks of information processing, administrative and manual tasks. What makes human ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-30
... s that we may have installed, AI is likely to play an ever-greater role in our daily lives, shaping decisions we make on the most minutiae of issues through to existential questions that affect the wh ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-30
The United States and China remain on a collision course. The new cold war between them may eventually turn hot over the issue of Taiwan. The “Thucydides Trap” – in which a rising power seems destined ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-29
... ing wheel may not be required but human intervention would be needed at emergency while L5 is completely unmanned under all situations. Investment bank UBS estimates that fully autonomous robotaxi cou ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-29
... d died in May 1957. Sixty-six years later, McCarthy’s legacy lives on - though this is by no means something to celebrate. The China Initiative - introduced during Donald J Trump’s tenure as a campaig ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-28
