Authors' Note: The US Congress is currently considering the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act of 2019. If this bill becomes law it will increase conflict between the US and China and increase U ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-15
Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments and Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other jointly won the Booker Prize on Monday in a surprise double award in which the literary prize recognized its oldest and fi ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-15
Anti-government protesters clashed with police in various districts across Hong Kong on Sunday, with an officer suffering a slash in the neck. According to the Hospital Authority, a total of 73 people ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-14
The Australian government has ordered the competition watchdog to investigate why banks failed to pass three official interest rate cuts this year in full, less than a year after a public inquiry expo ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-14
Apple has removed from its app store an application, HKmap.live, which protesters in Hong Kong have used to track police movements, saying the app violated its rules. The move came after the US tech g ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-10
Hong Kong's leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor has dismissed suggestions that her new anti-mask law has proved to be a dud, arguing that it is too early to determine the effectiveness of the measure in ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-08
Embattled Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor on Saturday urged the public to condemn violence and dissociate themselves from rioters after a night of chaos in which police shot a teenage boy a ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-05
President Donald Trump again invited foreign interference in a US presidential election by publicly calling on China to investigate Democratic political rival Joe Biden, the kind of request that has a ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-04
Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at pro-democracy protesters throwing petrol bombs in Hong Kong on Tuesday as China celebrated the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic. Ca ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-01
Boris Johnson said he would not quit as Britain’s prime minister even if he fails to secure a deal to leave the European Union, insisting only his Conservative government can deliver Brexit on Oct. 31 ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-30
Hong Kong's leader Carrie Lam on Thursday held the first of her planned dialogue sessions with the public as she seeks to bring an end to the months-long unrest in the city. As she began her "open dia ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-27
A trade deal with China could come about sooner than people think, US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday, adding that the Chinese were making big agricultural purchases from the United States, i ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-26
China’s top diplomat hit back at US criticism of its trade and development model, saying Beijing had no intention to “play the Game of Thrones on the world stage” but warned Washington to respect its ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-25
The United States led more than 30 countries on Tuesday in condemning what it called China’s “horrific campaign of repression” against Muslims in the western region of Xinjiang, Reuters reports. At an ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-25
