Facebook and some of its corporate allies have decided that what the world really needs is another cryptocurrency, and that launching one is the best way to use the vast talents at their disposal. The ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-03
Around the world, the creation of good new jobs is increasingly concentrated in some of the largest cities. Innovative people want to work and live in close proximity to one another. This process of t ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-02
The terrible experience of the 1930s should remind us that trade and currency wars go together like a horse and carriage. Now that US President Donald Trump’s administration is fully implementing his ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-02
Three years after the United Kingdom’s Brexit referendum, the UK is no closer to figuring out how to leave the European Union, and what comes next, than it was when the result was announced. And now a ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-27
American multinationals may like the idea of forcing China to alter the policies and practices – from subsidies for state-owned enterprises to the requirement that foreign firms share proprietary tech ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-25
US President Donald Trump’s anti-climate agenda is in full swing. His administration has already taken action 117 times to repeal or weaken climate regulations, and much more deregulation is in the wo ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-24
特朗普政府對華貿易衝突背後隱藏着一種由來已久的擔憂,那就是美國有可能在全球技術競爭中失去優勢。而且有這種擔憂的 ...全文
今日信報EJ GlobalEJ GLOBAL plus 彙編選輯Manuel Muniz2019年06月22日
In early 2015, the European Union became the first major economy to set a post-2020 target for limiting greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions. By committing to reducing emissions to at least 40 percent below ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-19
Like many others, I was shocked by recent images showing the size of the queue that formed in May to scale Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak, from the Nepalese side. The idea that delays caused ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-19
前美國駐聯合國大使薩曼莎.鮑爾(Samantha Power)曾稱種族滅絕戰爭是「地獄來的問題」(A prob ...全文
今日信報EJ GlobalEJ GLOBAL plus 彙編選輯Amin Saikal2019年06月15日
The current US economic expansion is extraordinary. Not only does it rival the longest on post-war record, but, unlike previous periods of sustained growth, it has not unleashed much inflation. Corpor ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-13
To live in a small island state today is to reckon regularly with the cruelest irony of climate change. Islands contribute little to global warming, but they are the first to suffer from its devastati ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-11
Though US President Donald Trump tends to grab most of the headlines, he is hardly a global exception. Populist autocrats have enjoyed a breathtaking rise to power in countries around the world, and n ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-06
當上個月颶風艾迪襲擊莫桑比克、馬拉維、津巴布韋和馬達加斯加時,造成近千人死亡,數十萬人無家可歸、忍受着飢餓和疾 ...全文
今日信報EJ GlobalEJ GLOBAL plus 彙編選輯劉振民2019年06月01日
The European Parliament elections that concluded on May 26 turned out to be a Game of Thrones replay – a long and complex story with a surprising and, for many, unsatisfactory outcome. As with Game of ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-28
Dashing hopes of a quick agreement on trade relations with China, US President Donald Trump’s administration has imposed punitive tariffs on another US$200 billion of Chinese goods. Now that the Chine ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-28
Earlier this month, US President Donald Trump suddenly revealed that a trade agreement between the United States and China was not imminent after all. On the contrary, on May 10, the Trump administrat ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-24
On May 18, European right-wing leaders assembled in Milan for a rally ahead of the European Parliament election this week. Among the attendees were Marine Le Pen of National Rally in France, Geert Wil ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-22
A few years ago, as part of a Western delegation to China, I met President Xi Jinping in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People. When addressing us, Xi argued that China’s rise would be peaceful, and that ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-21
McDonald’s. Costco. IKEA. Each of these corporate titans enjoys an enormous customer base. But what most of their customers might not realize is that these companies are leaders in ocean stewardship: ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-17