George Santayana famously observed that, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” But allow me to offer a corollary: Those who misremember the past may be led into error by mis ...More
EJ Insight2022-12-15
... urse, one may reasonably protest that there remains the perennial risk that a) new variants and b) an overloaded public healthcare system would spell a double whammy of disaster. The law of unintended ...More
EJ Insight2022-12-12
... asing. It may be moderating more slowly than optimists hoped a year ago – before Russia’s war in Ukraine – but it is moderating nonetheless, and for the same reasons that optimists had outlined. For e ...More
EJ Insight2022-12-12
... omoted to Mayor of Shanghai in 1985, and further promot ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightBrian Wong2022年12月08日
... omoted to Mayor of Shanghai in 1985, and further promoted to Party Secretary of Shanghai in 1987. Selected as a compromise between rival factions in the aftermath of the events of the late 1980s, Jian ...More
EJ Insight2022-12-07
... the past may have been rugged individualists, but even they needed collective action to protect themselves from theft and violence, and government regulations to ensure the proper functioning of the ...More
EJ Insight2022-12-07
... aiwan, it may lead to a new Taiwan crisis. The quest for stable U.S.-China relations no doubt accounted for Biden’s silence when protests erupted in China the week after the summit. On Nov. 28, at a W ...More
EJ Insight2022-12-06
... ntracts – may yet improve payment systems and broaden financial inclusion. Many central banks are entering the game, too, and launching their own digital currencies to shore up monetary sovereignty an ...More
EJ Insight2022-12-06
... “The king may die; the horse may die; or the horse may speak.” For five decades, both China and the US benefited from the time they had bought. After Nixon’s visit, the American strategy was to engage ...More
EJ Insight2022-12-06
... to the UK may have peaked. Most of those who wanted to go went last year. Those who have not gone have other considerations and may decide to stay here.” May Leung works as a client relationship offic ...More
EJ Insight2022-12-05
... er. Or it may help you avoid waiting until middle age o ...全文
... y closely may well find themselves disillusioned with his indecisiveness, incoherence, and attempts to have the cake and eat it with regards to China and Ukraine). Yet American democracy is in trouble ...More
EJ Insight2022-12-02
... es, China may need to head in the opposite direction. Observers often forget that QE was invented by the Bank of Japan in 2001 as a tool for dealing with balance-sheet deflation. Other tools included ...More
EJ Insight2022-12-02
... ths. They may obtain permanent residence, if they have completed a course of at least two years and lived in Australia for three or four years. They do not need to have already secured a job. The numb ...More
EJ Insight2022-12-01
... and they may turn out to be right. WTO members are already permitted to enact trade barriers for environmental ends, so long as the measures do not unfairly discriminate against foreign firms. There ...More
EJ Insight2022-11-30
... surgeons may be able to monitor whether the implant is moving with quantitative data points, and may start to really see what is the best time and the best implant for a given patient. Furthermore, w ...More
EJ Insight2022-11-30
