President-elect Tsai Ing-wen pledged to overhaul Taiwan’s flagging economy and maintain peace with mainland China, even as she called on Communist Party leaders in Beijing to respect the island’s demo ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-18
... ader Tsai Ing-wen is set to become Taiwan's first female president, trouncing her KMT rival Eric Chu and helping her group regain control of the island's affairs after eight years. Polls show Tsai ahe ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-15
Thousands of Hong Kong people, including politicians, media practitioners and students, are traveling to Taiwan to observe the conduct of the general elections on the island on Saturday. It's certainl ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-15
Hong Kong could get an answer from Beijing on Lee Bo and his associates as mainland officials will, sooner or later, produce trumped up criminal charges against the Hong Kong booksellers. One thing, h ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-13
Taiwan's people will go to the polling stations Jan. 16 to select their president and members of the legislature. The pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party's candidate, Tsai Ing-wen, is the cl ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-08
China's factory activity contracted for the 10th straight month in December, and at a sharper pace than in November, a private survey showed. The Caixin/Markit China Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-04
Last week, I shared with readers the first five of the top 10 major themes in the financial markets in 2015. Let me now talk about the remaining five. Sixth, China’s stock market outperformed despite ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-31
Beijing will not allow any Taiwanese person doing business in mainland China to show support for pro-independence activities on the island, a top official reiterated Wednesday. Ma Xiaoguang, spokesman ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-31
China responded with a knee-jerk reaction to the Obama Administration's announcement of a US$1.83 billion arms sales package for Taiwan, summoning the charge d’affaires at the American embassy for a d ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-22
Nothing out of the ordinary happened during last week's historic meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Taiwanese leader Ma Ying-jeou. The two cross-strait rivals stuck to the script and ima ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-16
Taiwan's presidential election frontrunner Tsai Ing-wen saw her Facebook page overwhelmed by a sudden surge of messages from mainland netizens, demanding the island's return to China. But Tsai, who is ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-12
After all the fanfare, now we see how exaggerated the hype was for the meeting between Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) and his mainland counterpart, Xi Jinping (習近平). Nothing much that was concr ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-10
A strong, vigorous handshake that lasted more than a minute marked the historic first meeting between the leader of the People’s Republic of China and the leader of Taiwan, which has been the home of ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-10
From an international perspective, Taiwan and China are two different countries, as each has its own government and territory. But in their historic meeting at the weekend, the leaders of Taiwan and ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-09
The "one China" principle ran through the remarks of both Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Taiwanese counterpart, Ma Ying-jeou, during their meeting in Singapore on the weekend, Bloomberg reported ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-09
Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九), who has seen his reputation get dented over the years, is now eyeing a chance to redefine his legacy before he steps down from office next year. Ma hopes a landmar ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-06
What does the tree hugger say to the tree? Not a lot, apparently, in the case of Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou and Chinese President Xi Jinping, who are expected to meet in Singapore on Saturday. We w ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-05
Some Taiwanese groups have voiced their opposition to a planned meeting in Singapore this Saturday between Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. Anti-China groups and ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-05
... y is Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) from the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) well poised to become the island’s next president, the KMT also fears losing its majority of the seats in the parliament. ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-22
Fearing a disastrous outcome at presidential and legislative elections in January, Taiwan's ruling Kuomintang finally took the plunge and replaced its original presidential candidate, Hung Hsiu-chu, w ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-20
