Alas, Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying will have to look for a new deputy if he wins reelection in 2017. Chief Secretary Carrie Lam, who arguably has the second toughest job in Hong Kong, told three ne ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-21
If you are visiting Taiwan, avoid these chain restaurants: Bravo Hot Pot, Dada Tea, Jogoya and No.1 Wellington Street. They reportedly bought expired food supplies from Hsienyang, a food company in th ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-20
The Democratic Progressive Party’s victory in Taiwan’s elections turned out to be even greater than expected, so much so that Beijing, which used to fulminate at the DPP-led pro-independence camp, has ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-19
Many Hong Kong people think Taiwan could be another Hong Kong on the assumption that the growing influence of Beijing on Taipei could gradually bring the island under Chinese rule. But after the lands ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-18
Call it fate, happenstance or whatever, but there seems to be a magic number that ties Taiwan's Tsai Ing-wen, the presidential candidate of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party, to Hong Kong Ch ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-18
Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) might want to send a note of thanks to a 16-year-old K-pop star for inadvertently helping party candidate Tsai Ing-wen score a big win in the presidential e ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-18
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
