More than seven months into the civil unrest in Hong Kong, the war between the “yellow” and “blue” camps appears to have ground to a stalemate, with neither side being able to gain an upper hand. For ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-21
... ing the upside against the downside. Yet the question is, will such plan really work? My answer is in the negative. It is because, as media reports have pointed out, the outlets or stores that were va ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-21
... ssions. Besides, such demands as pardoning arrested protesters, holding the police accountable for its brutality and delivering universal suffrage are not only untimely at this stage but also not up t ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-15
The election last Saturday, in which Tsai Ing-wen won a second term as president, shows democracy maturing in Taiwan, which only started direct presidential elections in 1996. Political power has now ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-14
... s of your side. This win condition is checked only at the end of a round, i.e. after all five major powers have taken their turns. There is an alternative ending - humans losing the world to zombies. ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-10
Donald Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton said on Monday that he is willing to testify in the expected Senate impeachment trial of the US president, a surprise development that could ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-07
... the only side blaming the court on unreasonable grounds. The pro-democracy bloc and netizens, too, have often been lambasting the judiciary for making court rulings that aren’t to their liking. As bo ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-02
... turned-president Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, one of the Middle East and North Africa’s most brutal leaders, to squash last year’s protests. The question is for how long. The question is all the more relevan ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-02
... genda. President Xi Jinping and other leading mainland officials, including the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office director Zhang Xiaoming, have repeatedly said that Hong Kong urgently needs this, to ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-02
... st. US President Donald Trump, who faces a re-election campaign in 2020, accused Iran of orchestrating the violence. He threatened on Tuesday to retaliate against Iran but said later he did not want w ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-02
... et’s walk side by side”, in Chinese. However, the fake poster changes the wording to "Do not forget revenge, let’s renovate the whole city”. The wording in Chinese was altered, as well as the main gra ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-31
... rn in the side of investors next year. Agreement on a “Phase One” trade deal, which will see some tariffs rolled back, was good news and gave a shot in the arm for sentiment. However, negotiations on ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-31
... if either side shirks its commitments. As a result, a broad Sino-American decoupling will likely intensify over time, and is all but certain in the technology sector. The US regards China’s quest to a ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-24
... lso grown side by side over the past 10 years; Venezuela was once the fifth happiest country in the world, but people are no longer happy with the economy collapsing in recent years. However, out of 1 ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-23
... h neither side has released many specific details of the agreement. US officials say China agreed to increase purchases of US products and services by at least US$200 billion over the next two years. ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-19
Six people were killed and 39 injured in a bus accident near Sheung Shui on Wednesday, a shocking incident that is prompting authorities to consider beefing up the traffic rules and road safety requir ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-19
... the home side for Wednesday’s match in the four-team tournament that also includes hosts South Korea and Japan, were dressed all in red and turned to face their bauhinia flag when the national anthem ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-19
... ck at the side of a road, unharmed. “It was great he had the driving skills to get out of there,” Police Sergeant Michael Daley told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. (ABC). “It is fantastic we found ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-17
