When John Lee was sworn in as Chief Executive two months ago, he pledged to safeguard China’s “sovereignty, national security and development interests” as well as “to ensure prosperity and stability” ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-06
... tries for two weeks. This time, the EU did wake up – at least a little – and adopted its third joint energy package for gas and electricity. By advocating diversification, marketization, and energy-se ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-05
... tween the two? In fact, we have to balance personal privacy with convenience every day, even every minute. For example, when you take photos with your mobile phone, have you ever thought about whether ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-05
... tion into two questions – first, is strong AI, were it to exist, capable of wreaking substantial havoc upon humanity (and will it?); second, how far are we from strong AI – is it even attainable, in t ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-02
The US dollar has been on a tear this summer. The Japanese yen and the euro have fallen to their lowest levels against the greenback in two decades; the euro, long worth more than one dollar, is now h ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-02
... p address two other key challenges facing Borneo’s indigenous communities. First, palm-oil estates have eroded the forest cover and poisoned local waterways with pesticides and fertilizers, leaving ri ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-02
... the past two years – owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, production disruptions in China, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine – has derailed economic growth. Moreover, the US Federal Reserve is now incli ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-01
... e between two types of AI. Artificial general intelligence (AGI) refers to AI that is capable of understanding or learning any and all task that a human being can. Within AGI, Strong AI possesses the ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-01
All curious minds wonder why Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu’s two-day visit to Guangzhou and Shenzhen starting today was cancelled and what it would mean for the widely anticipated border reopening ...More
EJ Insight2022-08-31
... the last two times it was reached, a recession also followed within two years. This point is reinforced by the correlation with the ISM, which typically follows changes in mortgage payments with a la ...More
EJ Insight2022-08-31
... have been two important exceptions. Exception 1: The Bank of Japan is holding up First, the Bank of Japan (BoJ) sees the current cycle’s high levels of growth and inflation in Japan as an opportunity ...More
EJ Insight2022-08-30
... year, the two major players of Web 2.0, Meta (Facebook) and Twitter, have integrated NFT into their platforms, which confirms the significance of Web 3.0 to the future trend. ...More
EJ Insight2022-08-29
... said the two sides should continue consolidating trade in key commodities and tap into new growth areas such as digital economy, green development, cross-border e-commerce and trade in services. In p ...More
EJ Insight2022-08-29
... deed have two sides, and that such two sides’ persuasiveness varies not in accordance with some objective, holier-than-thou metric vested within the hands of the Divine, but instead in the ability on ...More
EJ Insight2022-08-26
... ry – just two weeks back! Men don’t get nearly as much hate, or bigoted judgment, or bizarre scrutiny and commentary, as women in politics, or elsewhere. Perhaps the issue with Marin’s being at the ni ...More
EJ Insight2022-08-26
... more than two years under the global pandemic. Well, you might think three days a week is not a big deal, but once the gate of Work From Home (WFH) is open, it is hard to close. A group of Apple staff ...More
EJ Insight2022-08-24
... There are two macroeconomic reasons to think that commodity prices in general will fall further. The level of economic activity is a self-evidently important determinant of demand for commodities and ...More
EJ Insight2022-08-24
In October 2021, two tractors with a large chain stretched between them cleared more than 2,000 hectares of forest in the Brazilian Cerrado, one of the world’s most biodiverse areas. Tragically, such ...More
EJ Insight2022-08-24
