President Xi Jinping will embark Saturday on his first visit to Europe since taking office a year ago, aiming to enhance economic ties between China and the European Union. Foreign Minister Wang Yi, a ...More
EJ Insight2014-03-18
The world is courting Africa, and about time too. The United States has fallen way behind China and is now trying to make up lost ground. Meanwhile, other emerging economies, led by China, are strengt ...More
EJ Insight2014-03-11
In 2008, after Ma Ying-jeou was elected president, he halted the political war over sovereignty between Taiwan and mainland China and focused on improving cross-strait relations. Dialogue with the mai ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-19
Business leaders, it seems, are increasingly worried about the continuing hostility between China and Japan. The New York Times reported that at the World Economic Forum in Davos, despite general opti ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-11
Last month, China disclosed figures for 2013 confirming that it had replaced the United States as the world’s largest trading nation, with the country passing another milestone in its march towards su ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-04
The deterioration in political relations between China and Japan, which saw bilateral trade drop in 2012 after Tokyo nationalized three tiny islands also claimed by Beijing, caused further damage to m ...More
EJ Insight2014-01-21
China has made a revised bid to join the Government Procurement Agreement of the World Trade Organization, less than three weeks after promising the United States that it would do so some time this ye ...More
EJ Insight2014-01-15
For the first time since it came into existence in 1995, the World Trade Organization in December finally achieved a breakthrough, reaching a series of agreements to streamline trade that are expected ...More
EJ Insight2013-12-31
Checkbook diplomacy as an instrument of policy between Taiwan and mainland China hasn’t been used in at least five years, but a somewhat similar type of diplomacy is now emerging as China and Japan bo ...More
EJ Insight2013-12-23
The world’s trade structure has changed dramatically over the past decade, with China having replaced the United States last year as the biggest trading nation. As recently as 2006, the US was the mos ...More
EJ Insight2013-12-17
British Prime Minister David Cameron was fêted by China’s leaders during his three-day trip to the country but much of his diet consisted of humble pie, which he manfully swallowed, pointing to “a vis ...More
EJ Insight2013-12-10
China’s announcement of an East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone effectively took hostage the world’s multibillion-dollar airline industry. An airline’s first responsibility is the safety of ...More
EJ Insight2013-12-03
More than three decades ago, Deng Xiaoping, who later became known as the chief architect of China’s reforms, decided to focus on economic development through pragmatic experimentation, with the count ...More
EJ Insight2013-11-28
China is dramatically increasing its imports of crude oil from Russia and the two countries seem to be on the verge of huge deals involving natural gas, of which Russia holds the world's largest reser ...More
EJ Insight2013-11-21
The United States and China are negotiating a bilateral investment treaty. Economic issues come up regularly in the annual Strategic and Economic Dialogue. However, while car tires and chicken meat ge ...More
EJ Insight2013-11-13
China and Japan have lodged protests with each other over the holding of naval exercises in the East China Sea as their dispute over tiny islands shows no sign of a resolution. The heightening tension ...More
EJ Insight2013-11-06
After years of troubled relations with the countries of Southeast Asia, China has launched a campaign to improve its ties with ASEAN through a dramatic rise in trade, while not retreating on its sover ...More
EJ Insight2013-10-30
Ever since the Second World War, the United States has played an indispensable role, ensuring peace and order in the world and creating conditions that allowed the revitalization of the war-torn count ...More
EJ Insight2013-10-23
The Taiwan-Mainland China services trade agreement, signed in June, is still not in effect having been blocked by the opposition Democratic Progressive Party which is insisting on an article-by-articl ...More
EJ Insight2013-10-16
In calling for the rejuvenation of the nation through realization of the “Chinese Dream”, President Xi Jinping is also invoking another aspect of history – the ancient trading route known as the Silk ...More
EJ Insight2013-10-08
