... al change we are now experiencing threatens to split the world order in two. A key sign of this is the decision by much of the Global South to support – or at least refuse to condemn – Russia’s full-s ...More
EJ Insight2023-06-13
The financial markets have weathered significant storms since the onset of the pandemic in 2020, not least among them the recent turmoil in the banking sector in the United States and Switzerland. Giv ...More
EJ Insight2023-06-12
With the world on track to exceed 1.5° Celsius of warming in the next decade, we can expect climate hazards to intensify, driving millions more into famine, causing trillions of dollars in damage, and ...More
EJ Insight2023-06-12
... entiment. We’ve seen reshoring and nearshoring booms that have taken advantage of the country’s geographical supply chain benefits and competitive rates for highly skilled labor, along with the countr ...More
EJ Insight2023-06-09
Hardly a week goes by without various pioneers in artificial intelligence issuing dire warnings about the technology that they introduced to the world. I got an early glimpse of this emerging pessimis ...More
EJ Insight2023-06-09
Some of us are more optimistic than others about the future. We optimists recognize that it is still possible to escape from the traps that America’s Second Gilded Age has laid. During a gilded age, p ...More
EJ Insight2023-06-09
... f extreme weather is set to increase. And yet, with limited fiscal space and poor access to international markets, EMDEs are unable to invest in climate resilience as needed. As a key multilateral bod ...More
EJ Insight2023-06-08
... s. All is well. Yet my American friend remains dissatisfied. He sees the White House’s approach to China as fundamentally untenable, undergirded by a combination of aimlessness, restlessness, and Quix ...More
EJ Insight2023-06-08
... E Awards) were co-organized with the Development Bureau in 2022 to recognise local projects and organisations that best utilize Common Data Environment (CDE) to improve project management, productivit ...More
EJ Insight2023-06-08
Here is one reason why we call a lady a “miss”. According to the findings of the latest Physical Fitness Survey for the Community, 85 per cent of girls in Hong Kong thought they had enough exercise. B ...More
EJ Insight2023-06-07
The events that have unfolded over the past few days, no doubt have weighed on the minds of many of us. Many of us, qua Hong Kongers. Qua citizens who love this city dearly. And que folks who may pers ...More
EJ Insight2023-06-07
In recent years, investors have become accustomed to a significant impasse facing emerging market sovereign debt restructurings. China’s role as a major creditor owes to its Belt-and-Road initiative ( ...More
EJ Insight2023-06-06
... cross the Western world have been touting “friend-shoring” and other forms of decoupling from China. Most of these descriptions are new variants of an old mantra: Stop the world – I want to get off. Y ...More
EJ Insight2023-06-06
... 「陪我講Shall We Talk」(shallwetalk.hk)查閱。 諮詢委員會相信，今次悲劇乃個別事件 ...全文
As the 2024 US presidential primary campaign season begins, the most likely final contest is a rematch between President Joe Biden and Donald Trump. Judging by the electoral map in 2020, Biden would b ...More
EJ Insight2023-06-02
... past two weeks, officials at the world’s most powerful and influential central bank have signaled a range of possible actions, from hiking rates again to “pausing” or “skipping” this round and resumi ...More
EJ Insight2023-06-02
“The old is dying and the new cannot be born,” the Italian Marxist theorist Antonio Gramsci wrote in the early twentieth century. We seem to be living in a similar interregnum today, likewise marked b ...More
EJ Insight2023-06-02
