In the run-up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Sharm El-Sheikh, this year’s energy crisis has intensified the debate over what policies developing countries should be putting ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-13
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and nuclear saber rattling against the West have revived a debate about nuclear weapons. Last year, when a United Nations treaty to ban such weapons outright entered into ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-07
I’ve been asked many a time – why debate? What are the merits of such an adversarial and intrinsically intractable sport, rooted in often little more than mere bravado and bluster? Why should we seek ...More
EJ Insight2022-08-26
In recent years, and especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, attacks on science and scientists have been escalating to an alarming degree. Health officials and the broader scientific community have p ...More
EJ Insight2022-08-26
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
US Senate Democrats’ compromise bill, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022, addresses not just inflation but also several key longstanding problems facing our economy and society. There is a simm ...More
EJ Insight2022-08-09
At this year’s Aspen Security Forum (which I co-chair) in July, China’s ambassador to the United States, Qin Gang, appealed for better understanding of his country. But there was considerable debate a ...More
EJ Insight2022-08-05
Recent large interest-rate hikes by the US Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank suggest that monetary policymakers are intent on moving forcefully to bring down inflation. But where are the s ...More
EJ Insight2022-08-02
In October 2015, British Prime Minister David Cameron declared a “golden era” in his country’s relations with China. Now, not seven years later, the two people campaigning to become the next Prime Min ...More
EJ Insight2022-08-01
The United States Supreme Court’s recent decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade has firmly engulfed American society in heated debates. Beyond the strife on the volte-face of abortion right, this epochal c ...More
EJ Insight2022-07-26
It has been five months since Europe and the United States imposed tough economic and financial sanctions on Russia, a G20 country that was the world’s eleventh-largest economy on the eve of its invas ...More
EJ Insight2022-07-22
Rich Western industrialized countries appear to be caught in a time loop, with unexpectedly higher inflation bringing back not just memories of the 1970s but also that era’s policy debates and the pol ...More
EJ Insight2022-07-07
The global financial and economic outlook for the year ahead has soured rapidly in recent months, with policymakers, investors, and households now asking how much they should revise their expectations ...More
EJ Insight2022-06-30
I’ve held off from sharing my two cents of worth on the ongoing Depp-Heard saga – in part because I do not think I have anything unique to say, but also in part due to the messiness of the quagmire. T ...More
EJ Insight2022-06-14
In 2021, the big debate about the outlook for the global economy focused on whether the rising inflation in the United States and other advanced economies was transitory or persistent. Key central ban ...More
EJ Insight2022-06-01
A commentary by philosopher Jürgen Habermas has triggered one of Germany’s most ferocious political debates in decades, on the question of how the country should position itself in the widening Russia ...More
EJ Insight2022-05-17
I get a lot of enquiries these days about studying at O ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightBrian Wong2022年05月17日
I get a lot of enquiries these days about studying at Oxbridge. As someone who has spent 7 years at Oxford, starting as a wee undergrad and climbing (I suppose) my way through to the postgraduate stag ...More
EJ Insight2022-05-11
Hong Kong's value to its country remains its openness, ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightBrian Wong2022年05月11日
Hong Kong’s value to its country remains its openness, cosmopolitanism, and fundamental willingness to embrace and take on the unknown. It is its internationalism, as opposed to inward-looking nativis ...More
EJ Insight2022-05-10
