With her ambitious Bridgetown Agenda to reform the international financial architecture, Barbadian Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley has become a powerful advocate for climate justice. But she is not th ...More
EJ Insight2023-10-13
... alence between involved parties remains fundamentally inappropriate, yet where the truth is distinctly murkier than it seems. Not because ‘both sides are in the wrong’, but because there are select ac ...More
EJ Insight2023-10-13
... n 2023. However, there are bright spots — inflation is beginning to moderate, central banks are slowing the pace of tightening and fixed income valuations are now attractive across many sectors. Again ...More
EJ Insight2023-10-12
No one can control natural disasters but that does not mean we cannot handle them in a smarter way. Almost every time a typhoon hits Hong Kong, there will be guaranteed finger-pointing to the governme ...More
EJ Insight2023-10-11
... rvices as well as introducing extra safeguards have been widespread in the region, such as setting requirements for asset segregation, liquid reserves and insurance, banning lending and staking or imp ...More
EJ Insight2023-10-11
... wing Sino-West tensions, have collectively culminated in the seeming cratering of Hong Kong’s tourism industry. The ‘mojo’ that had once sustained this very inexorable machine, has apparently vanished ...More
EJ Insight2023-10-10
While most industries have seen a noticeable upswing in demand as we move forward in the post-COVID era, Hong Kong businesses are not out of the woods yet. Still reeling from the impact of the pandemi ...More
EJ Insight2023-10-10
... i border, we’re witnessing an era of heightened risk for what Steve Roach terms ‘accidental conflict’. That is, the probability of an unbridled and unmanageable geopolitical clash between competing po ...More
EJ Insight2023-10-09
... pandemic. We expect this trend to continue, dampening prospects for economic growth both in China and, at the margin, the rest of the world (recall that China has accounted for more than a third of gl ...More
EJ Insight2023-10-06
Humanity was caught off guard by the COVID-19 pandemic, even though we had effectively been warned by smaller-scale outbreaks – of SARS, Ebola, MERS, and avian flu – for decades. US President Barack ...More
EJ Insight2023-10-04
... he famous West Lake, is a must-go local and tourist destination. Half of the stalls sold cultural and creative handmade products such as ghost masks of Sun Wukong aka Monkey King and Spiderman. One ca ...More
EJ Insight2023-10-04
... roblem in wealthy parts of the world, with Hong Kong's 0.7% last year, as well as neighbouring regions such as Japan, South Korea, the Mainland, the United States and even Finland, which topped the Wo ...More
EJ Insight2023-10-03
The great-power competition between the United States and China is a defining feature of the first part of this century, but there is little agreement on how it should be characterized. Some call it a ...More
EJ Insight2023-10-02
... o carry a weapon. This prompted the Home Secretary Suella Braverman KC to tweet:“We depend on our brave firearms officers to protect us from the most dangerous and violent in society. In the interest ...More
EJ Insight2023-10-02
... prevail. We should take that seriously. When President Xi talks about ideology, he believes it. China has given up co-operation with the West, which is not good for us," he said. So the right policy ...More
EJ Insight2023-09-28
