For more than three decades, the world economy has become accustomed to China being the main contributor to global growth. In particular, during the 2008 crisis, the Chinese economy contributed up to ...More
EJ Insight2023-09-15
Is the dollar poised to lose its dominance of global economic and financial transactions? Many commentators apparently think so. Russia obviously hopes they are right, given that it has been shut out ...More
EJ Insight2023-09-15
... the planet. Among the most significant changes wrought by the pandemic is a permanent shift in the way we work. Long periods of home working turbo-charged a revolution that had been underway for years ...More
EJ Insight2023-09-14
It is official: July was the hottest month on record. Global warming is happening, and its costs continue to mount. The World Meteorological Organization recently noted that, “Extreme weather, climate ...More
EJ Insight2023-09-13
... carcerated. Trump’s secretary of energy and former Texas Governor Rick Perry, for example, had an abuse-of-power charge pending against him when he briefly sought the Republican Party’s presidential n ...More
EJ Insight2023-09-12
The rituals of fall in the northern hemisphere now include preparing for a fresh variant of COVID-19, in addition to the annual flu season. This year, it is EG.5 (nicknamed Eris, the ancient Greek god ...More
EJ Insight2023-09-12
... carcerated. Trump’s secretary of energy and former Texas Governor Rick Perry, for example, had an abuse-of-power charge pending against him when he briefly sought the Republican Party’s presidential n ...More
EJ Insight2023-09-11
Amid an escalating climate emergency and a global debt crisis, calls for a new “fit for climate” global financial architecture are growing louder throughout the developing world. The urgent need for d ...More
EJ Insight2023-09-11
Last Friday saw Hong Kong hit by one of the worst, if not downright the worst, rainstorms it has endured in recorded history. 158.1mm of rain was recorded at the Observatory headquarters between 11pm ...More
EJ Insight2023-09-11
... nd writers. This echoes the predictions of the Future of Jobs Report 2023 released by the World Economic Forum that as many as 83 million jobs would be replaced by artificial intelligence (AI). This i ...More
EJ Insight2023-09-08
I often travel past a small noodle shop on Bonham Road which found itself the centre of much unwanted attention recently. For many years, the shop has been a favourite haunt of construction workers on ...More
EJ Insight2023-09-07
The recent BRICS summit in South Africa marks the start of a new phase of Great Power competition. At the apparent urging of China, the BRICS group (which also includes Brazil, Russia, India, and Sout ...More
EJ Insight2023-09-07
Today, any conversation about artificial intelligence (AI) is bound to include the emergence of ChatGPT, a widely used chatbot built on OpenAI’s GPT series of large language models (LLMs). However, ac ...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
... 海水樣本，氚濃度為2.6貝克。至於其他9個地點的海水樣本，氚濃度未達到檢測下限。 東電表示，樣本的氚濃度上升是 ...全文
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
In July 2019, the United Kingdom’s foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt, launched a global campaign for media freedom at a London conference co-organized by the Canadian government. “Today, we are joined by ...More
EJ Insight2023-09-01
To understand a country fully, requires us to understand its government, its economy, its people, and the underlying propositions that a) no country is identical, and b) no country is a monolith. The ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-31
