In the debate about how to curb global warming, climate action is often confused for climate justice. Many European countries (including the United Kingdom) have taken to self-flagellation, atoning fo ...More
EJ Insight2023-09-01
In July 2019, the United Kingdom’s foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt, launched a global campaign for media freedom at a London conference co-organized by the Canadian government. “Today, we are joined by ...More
EJ Insight2023-09-01
US President Joe Biden’s recent executive order restricting American investments in Chinese semiconductors, microelectronics, quantum information technology, and artificial intelligence marks another ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-31
To understand a country fully, requires us to understand its government, its economy, its people, and the underlying propositions that a) no country is identical, and b) no country is a monolith. The ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-31
Over the past few weeks, the Swiss franc has maintained its strength against the euro, while easing somewhat against the US dollar. In our view, the currency’s recent strength is largely due to a comb ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-31
Where in Hong Kong can one find this secret shopping paradise? According to Hong Kong Tourism Board, it is “a huge multi-block outlet shopping complex where people flock to find the latest cosmetics a ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-30
With a lack of ground-breaking technological innovation over the past few decades in the highly industrialised countries, the labour productivity growth there has diminished. This is the conclusion of ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-30
Artificial intelligence (AI) is an increasingly ubiquitous field of study and subject of discussion and investigation across a variety of fields: from computer science to digital marketing and commerc ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-30
As the world grapples with an unprecedented confluence of devastating floods, wildfires, and droughts, the debate about how to address the escalating climate crisis is increasingly distorted by big-bu ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-30
The United States and China remain on a collision course. The new cold war between them may eventually turn hot over the issue of Taiwan. The “Thucydides Trap” – in which a rising power seems destined ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-29
In the BYD 2022 annual report communication meeting, Chairman of the carmaker Wang Chuanfu considered autonomous driving (AD) as impractical and misleading, saying that it was a “false promise”. He be ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-29
When I coined the BRIC acronym back in 2001, my primary point was that global governance would need to adjust to incorporate the world’s largest emerging economies. Not only did Brazil, Russia, India, ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-28
In February 1950, then Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (a junior senator from Wisconsin) declared that there were 205 card-carrying Communists employed in the US Department of State. With irreverent noncha ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-28
In late July, Argentina had to repay the International Monetary Fund (IMF) US$2.7 billion as part of a bailout. But it did not want to use its scarce reserves of dollars -- so it paid most of it in re ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-28
... ons, the National Security Law (NSL), an increasing req ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightMark O’Neill2023年08月26日
In a publication late last month, I hazarded a guess of a New Normal paradigm in Sino-US relations: ties remain tense, rivlary can be cutthroat, but both refrain from going so extreme as to risk ignit ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-25
At least half of the global population lacks access to essential health services, and health-care expenses push almost 100 million people into extreme poverty each year. How scarce resources are distr ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-25
... sitions that the Global South opted for (or against) taking, and the increasing pluralisation and diversification of the primary currency in circulation in the world. A world where the USD no longer d ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-25
