A stream of European countries have exited the controversial Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) over the past year. France, Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Luxembourg, Slovenia, and Denmark have all ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-05
I recently attended the China Development Forum (CDF) in Beijing, an annual gathering of senior foreign business leaders, academics, former policymakers, and top Chinese officials. This year’s confere ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-05
After the Covid-19 pandemic, many experts and policy makers believe that returning trade will help revitalise economies as restrictions have eased. While the current global economic headwinds of growi ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-05
In recent years, the positions of chief executive officer of many tech giants in the United States have been held by Indians. For example, Google and Alphabet's Sundar Pichai, Microsoft's Satya Nadell ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-04
... dress climate change, achieve sustainable growth, and solve global problems such as aging populations, while also engaging with the audience. The four keynote speakers were all international distingui ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-04
The first call by President Xi Jinping to his Ukrainian counterpart since the start of the Russian invasion has been welcomed by all sides as an important diplomatic step forward. But it will not brin ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-04
Bad news is tax season is coming. Worse, the Hong Kong SAR government expects a five per cent drop in tax revenue in the financial year ended 31 March 2023, raising fear that we might need to pay more ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-03
Judging by the growing number of companies vowing to reduce their greenhouse-gas emissions to zero these days, it may seem like the corporate world is finally taking the climate crisis seriously. Acco ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-03
There is something conspicuously perverse about the state of domestic political discourse in Hong Kong. There is an odious, growing tendency to brand all things “Western” as evil, and to celebrate all ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-03
Over the past few years, China has significantly expanded its economic footprint in South America, overtaking the United States as the continent’s largest trading partner. Despite US President Joe Bid ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-02
The hour-long phone call between Xi Jinping and Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s wartime president, followed by Beijing’s appointment of a senior diplomat to be dispatched to Ukraine and other countries ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-02
Hopes that China will meet or even exceed 5% real gross domestic product (GDP) growth this year are warranted. The key driver will be consumption, fueled by excess household savings and a pro-business ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-02
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The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank held their Spring Meetings in Washington this month amid growing fears of a prolonged worldwide recession and following a series of reports predictin ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-28
It would be reasonable to think real estate investors might welcome the anticipation of financial markets that the Fed will pivot to cut rates later this year. Rising interest rates have been a leadin ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-28
The world is in the midst of a debt crisis. A recent report estimates that 61 emerging-market and developing economies – nearly one-third of the International Monetary Fund’s member countries – are fa ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-28
So, what does the future of Hong Kong entail? The urgency of searching for a better answer to this question is precisely why a collective effort from all segments of society, private and public, must ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-27
Climate policy is at a critical juncture. The world’s leading scientists see a rapidly closing window to avoid the worst ravages of global warming. With the enactment of the Inflation Reduction Act (I ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-27
... efforts that coincided with the full opening-up of Hong Kong and recent visits to the Philippines, Vietnam, the UAE and Saudi Arabia by the Chief Executive, it was a much needed and timely reaffirmati ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-27
One of the most memorable events about the celebration of the end of SARS was the Real Madrid visit. The so-called six aces era with French Zidane, Brazilian Ronaldo and Carlos, England’s Beckham, Por ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-26