The United States and Mexico have made substantial progress on the issue of autos content rules at talks to renew the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Reuters reports, citing Mexican and C ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-02
Donald Trump’s presidency reminds me of nothing so much as the wars in Yugoslavia in the 1990s. At the height of the violence, a Serb friend said to me: “I don’t like [Slobodan] Milošević. I don’t lik ...More
EJ Insight2018-07-27
To what extent is the Hong Kong police force being politicized? The question can no longer be whether or not politicization is taking place, given that the signs are all too evident. Yet this dangerou ...More
EJ Insight2018-07-27
The public consultation on land supply, spearheaded by the Task Force on Land Supply, has been underway for weeks already. Yet it appears all the stakeholders taking part in "the big debate" have been ...More
EJ Insight2018-07-26
Stock markets could be impacted by the World Cup match results, according to a study led by Alex Edmans, a professor of finance at the London Business School. The study, based on analyses of 1,100 foo ...More
EJ Insight2018-07-23
China's central bank and finance ministry recently engaged in a hot debate over the role of fiscal policy amid the nation’s economic restructuring. The debate was triggered by an article written by Xu ...More
EJ Insight2018-07-20
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. This may be why users the world over have embraced emojis with such enthusiasm. If you’re guilty of punctuating your texts and instant messages with emoji ...More
EJ Insight2018-07-19
In any mature civil society, it is common for citizens to freely express their views and opinions on social incidents or government policies. However, there is no such thing as "personal opinions" as ...More
EJ Insight2018-07-18
Urban planning has become a public concern. "Brownfield sites" and "big debate on land supply" have become common terms in the news in Hong Kong. Engaging in a public discussion that could lead to con ...More
EJ Insight2018-07-16
Earlier this month, Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor vowed that she would include in her upcoming Policy Address more policies in relation to boosting land supply. Then shortly afterwards, ...More
EJ Insight2018-07-16
Huge crowds of French supporters gathered at the Champs-Élysées in Paris on Sunday to celebrate after their team won the World Cup for the second time in a 4-2 victory over Croatia. As the final whist ...More
EJ Insight2018-07-16
Recently, Hong Kong's Home Affairs Bureau transferred 10 children's books on same-sex parenting to the closed area of the public library. These books will no longer be publicly displayed and will only ...More
EJ Insight2018-07-13
The Yau Tsim Mong District Council has overwhelmingly endorsed the plan of the Transport Department (TD) to scrap a pedestrian zone in Mong Kok from August 4. The proposal won almost unanimous support ...More
EJ Insight2018-07-13
If you were living in the mainland or had access only to state media propaganda, you would probably feel supremely proud of being a Chinese, as in recent years state media have been obsessed with boas ...More
EJ Insight2018-07-10
Hong Kong's ongoing public consultation on land supply will end at the end of September. But already Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor and housing minister Frank Chan Fan have both stated tha ...More
EJ Insight2018-07-05
US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he will use a strengthened national security review process to thwart foreign acquisitions of sensitive American technologies. Without naming China dir ...More
EJ Insight2018-06-28
If hundreds of young people armed with makeshift shields set fires, hurl bricks at police and kick them to the ground, would you describe such violence as a riot? Before you decide, you need to know t ...More
EJ Insight2018-06-21
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今日信報時事評論STRAIGHT-SHOOTING褚簡寧 Michael Chugani2018年06月21日
During the US-China rapprochement of the 1970s, China’s goals were clear. It wanted to break through its diplomatic isolation, partly self-imposed, develop the economy and enhance its international st ...More
EJ Insight2018-06-14
During the US-China rapprochement of the 1970s, China's ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightFrank Ching2018年06月14日
