When Western leaders or companies negotiate with China, they should be a mouse, not a lion. “Remember the Chinese proverb – two ears, one mouth – talk less and listen more. Endure silence.” This is th ...More
EJ Insight2023-11-30
Yesterday at 1:45pm, the Hang Seng Index was at 17,329, lower than Taiwan Stock Exchange Capitalization Weighted Stock Index (TAIEX) , marking the first time in 30 years that HSI was lower than TAIEX. ...More
EJ Insight2023-11-29
In recent years, climate change has emerged as one of the leading drivers of migration. Shifting weather patterns, together with the growing severity and frequency of extreme weather events, have affe ...More
EJ Insight2023-11-29
Water leakage in the public water networks is a perennial problem. Mainland media reported in 2021 that the leakage rate of water pipes in some cities and towns reached 30%, and the public water suppl ...More
EJ Insight2023-11-29
From the European Union’s Green Deal Industrial Plan and the United States’ Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) to Japan’s Green Growth Strategy and the Korean New Deal, industrial policies aimed at acceler ...More
EJ Insight2023-11-28
Ethiopia has long suffered from recurrent large-scale famines, most notably in the early 1980s, when at least one million people died, and millions more were displaced. This year, however, Ethiopia ha ...More
EJ Insight2023-11-27
Coupons, despite being one of the oldest marketing tools, continue to be highly effective even in the digital age. It possesses the power to attract and motivate consumers to make purchases. Research ...More
EJ Insight2023-11-27
The smartphone market is growing again, according to research firm Counterpoint, which estimated that sales grew 5 percent in October, compared to a year ago, the first expansion after 27 consecutive ...More
EJ Insight2023-11-24
Knowledge of the basic chemical process to make iron is older than the periodic table: iron ore + coal = iron + carbon dioxide. That last part – CO2 – has put the iron and steel industry under the spo ...More
EJ Insight2023-11-23
... United States President Joe Biden at the APEC meeting. On Monday, McDonald’s chief executive officer Chris Kempczinski said, "We believe there is no better time to simplify our structure, given the t ...More
EJ Insight2023-11-22
One mental hurdle that many older generation investors like Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger, Jaime Dimon, and others have over digital assets is that it is not real. By real they mean something that is ...More
EJ Insight2023-11-22
In London on November 20, the United Kingdom will host the Global Food Security Summit and launch a new strategy for international development. Despite pressing crises like the conflict in Gaza, we mu ...More
EJ Insight2023-11-22
On November 14, remarkably, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the consumer price index was unchanged in October. To be clear, that means the level of the CPI was unchanged; its rate of ...More
EJ Insight2023-11-21
... s of the National Security Law provoked a storm of banal criticisms ranging from describing it as “gangster behaviour” and intimidation of HKSAR judicial personnel to likening the Congressmen and Sena ...More
EJ Insight2023-11-21
... ortality rate in 18 rich countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), concludes that Hong Kong citizens, regardless of whether they are rich or poor, have the lowest ...More
EJ Insight2023-11-20
Last week the British people were stunned to learn that their disgraced Prime Minister David Cameron had returned to public office after seven years in the wilderness, to become Foreign Secretary. Con ...More
EJ Insight2023-11-20
There’s no doubt that today we’re in the grip of a remarkable and quite unprecedented societal shift that is radically changing the geography of work. A shift that, by enabling people to choose to wor ...More
EJ Insight2023-11-20
