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
... ns as the Western governments over the issue. In my view, it is actually Chief Executive Carrie Lam and other top government officials, and not the critics, who are burying their heads in the sand. Tu ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-20
... e face of western challenges. For example, Chinese and Russian leaders have mentioned on numerous occasions the importance of bilateral cooperation in exploring new shipping routes in the Arctic, and ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-17
... d in many western countries, including the UK, the United States and Canada, and also in several places in the Asia-Pacific, such as Taiwan, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea and even Vietnam. In Australi ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-17
Since 1979, the United States has been the most important Western partner of China, providing capital, technology, management and access to institutions of learning. Under President Donald Trump, this ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-17
Electronic payments are all the rage in China, India, and even Africa, but they are less popular in western developed countries. According to a report on the Merchant Machine website last year, China ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-16
... rned, the western media has also been downplaying the global significance of these railway projects by portraying them as Beijing’s tool to lure developing countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-09
... id-April, Western Cape Province, where the city is located, had approved 760 such licenses for Uber. But the city estimates there are roughly 10 times that many Uber drivers plying its streets, many o ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-08
... ilians in western Myanmar’s Rakhine State during an army crackdown that began in August 2017. The operation sent more than 730,000 Rohingya fleeing to Bangladesh, according to UN estimates. The report ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-07
... ay, where western nations – primarily Britain and France – meeting in Versailles decided to transfer the colonial possessions of a defeated Germany in Shandong province to Japan, which like China was ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-07
... n prey to western imperialism, and the major European powers' intense competition for spreading their influences eventually led to the First World War. After the end of the Great War, China demanded t ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-03
... as a rich Western country? After all, on their path to high-income status, Western economies emitted with abandon. Poor countries not only face constraints on development that their rich counterparts ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-02
From the Occupy Wall Street campaign in the United States in 2011 to the ongoing Yellow Vest protests in France, the tensions and confrontations between the haves and the have-nots in Western society ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-26
... support. Western governments have tended to view it as a means to spread Chinese influence abroad, saddling poor countries with unsustainable debt. While most of the Belt and Road projects are contin ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-26
... , slammed Western powers following their statements on Hong Kong, saying they had no right to interfere in Hong Kong affairs. Matters pertaining to Hong Kong are internal affairs of China, a foreign ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-25
... ith debt. Western governments have tended to view it as a means to spread Chinese influence abroad, saddling poor countries with unsustainable debt. Finance minister Liu Kun, speaking at a forum to ki ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-25
... and other Western states to isolate it. But with Moscow committed to upholding sanctions until the North dismantles its nuclear program, analysts said the summit was unlikely to produce any tangible h ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-25
... security. Western countries, particularly the US, have very tough national security laws which came into effect after the September 2001 terror attacks in the US. Sooner or later, Hong Kong has to ena ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-25
... for other Western nations to follow as they try to navigate the row between Beijing and Washington. The world’s leading intelligence-sharing network – the anglophone Five Eyes alliance of the US, Brit ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-25
