Russia’s war in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping’s recent meeting in Moscow, and China’s apparent success in brokering a diplomatic rapprochement between Iran and Saudi Arabia have fueled renewe ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-17
... gain a greater control over adjusting tunnel charges. Different charging schemes at different time slots, as well as a mechanism of 'transition period' with a small increase or decrease of $2 every tw ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-17
Those keenly following economic data for signs of a recession in the US and globally were in for a surprise in recent weeks. Financial sector stress came to the fore and dwarfed positive economic data ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-14
As a general rule of thumb, policies that deliver for the people, are much better than promises of policies that claim to deliver. The Inflation Reduction Act introduced by Biden’s White House, for al ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-14
No one seems to know how the United States would react if China were to invade Taiwan. For decades, US leaders did all they could to avoid this question. Then, in September of last year, President Joe ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-14
Every once in a while, we may find ourselves doing things that are quite clearly beyond our comfort zone. Such actions may confuse us. They may also thwart us and catch us off guard at our most vulner ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-13
China is leading the race among industrialised nations to buy and refine lithium, the key component to make batteries for the electric cars that will dominate the global market in the 2030s. Many call ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-13
Who doesn’t like to travel to Japan? What a surprise to see that 92-year-old Warren Buffett was among the visitors in the cherry blossoming season this year along with hundreds of thousands of Hong Ko ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-12
Many startup technology companies have the same question in mind: How can their company maintain a seat in the industry in the next five or even 10 years when the speed of innovation in the industry h ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-12
In the week since the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) bankruptcy, global authorities have stepped in starting with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Swiss National Bank (SNB), the People ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-12
Voluntary markets for carbon offsets have recently come under fire, with critics questioning the efficacy of contracts that aim to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide relative to what would have happene ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-11
After years of global climate-policy leadership, the European Union is looking warily at the United States’ sudden embrace of ambitious clean-energy subsidies. Ultimately, America’s entry into the cle ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-11
We have seen the rise and fall of different organisations and persons in the last year - Adidas, Credit Suisse, Meta, Silicon Valley Bank, Sam Bankman-Fried, Elon Musk and Kanye West - are just some e ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-11
In a world beset by crises, one is not getting nearly enough attention: the sovereign-debt emergency faced by half of the world’s emerging and developing economies. Fortunately, a new innovation in su ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-07
... ry Civilization）一課為例，師生在一年兩個學期內，就要討論柏拉圖《理想國》、亞里士多德《政治學》 ...全文
How much are you willing to give up for the cherry blossom in Japan? If you are a true fan, perhaps waiting five hours at the Tokyo airports is not a big deal for you. Photos of the crowded immigratio ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-06
