After World War I ended, Havana emerged as one of the world’s most vibrant cities. During the first half of 1920, rising sugar prices and a favorable global environment meant that credit and finance w ...More
EJ Insight2018-12-17
儘管華為副董事長及首席財務官孟晚舟成功獲保釋,華為事件仍在發酵。中國政府前後逮捕了兩名加拿大籍公民,認為二人可 ...全文
今日信報EJ GlobalEJ GLOBAL plus EJ Watch張倩燁2018年12月15日
The climate conference now underway in Katowice, Poland, has been billed as the most consequential since the 2015 summit, which produced the Paris climate agreement. Amid unprecedented public concern ...More
EJ Insight2018-12-14
The brewing conflict between the United States and China is typical of zero-sum contests among countries, firms, and individuals. The US is acting under the implicit assumption that if China’s GDP wer ...More
EJ Insight2018-12-14
With the price of Bitcoin down 80 percent from its peak a year ago, and the larger cryptocurrency market in systemic collapse, has “peak crypto” already come and gone? Perhaps, but don’t expect to see ...More
EJ Insight2018-12-11
Now is not a good time to be a climate-change denier like US President Donald Trump, given all the recent evidence that the atmosphere is warming faster than expected. On the Friday after Thanksgivi ...More
EJ Insight2018-12-10
The European Union has gained member-state approval for an agreement setting the terms of the United Kingdom’s exit from the bloc. But it is still unclear whether a majority of British parliamentarian ...More
EJ Insight2018-12-05
Just under ten years ago, the International Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress issued its report, Mismeasuring Our Lives: Why GDP Doesn’t Add Up. The title summe ...More
EJ Insight2018-12-04
作為一個中國籍專業人士,做與非洲發展相關的工作,一開始就遇到了「道德困境」:在看到中國在非洲的足跡,聽到非洲人 ...全文
今日信報EJ GlobalEJ GLOBAL plus 軟硬中國張倩燁2018年12月01日
When Mark Zuckerberg, the chairman, CEO, and co-founder of Facebook, appeared before the European Parliament in May, I suggested to him that he had lost control of his company. As one of the few polit ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-30
With so much angst about artificial intelligence and the future of work, the recent world chess championship in London offers some hope. It is not that mankind has turned the tables on the march of pr ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-29
US President Donald Trump blew off two multilateral summits in Asia this month. Given his soggy and sulking performance that week in Paris, during the international commemoration of the centenary of t ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-29
The world is in a trade war, and there is no sign of peace breaking out anytime soon. By now, the disruption to trade appears extensive enough to factor negatively into forecasts for economic growth. ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-27
On the 40th anniversary of the launch of China’s “reform and opening up”, the country is well on its way to recapturing its former status as the world’s largest economy, having made substantial progre ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-27
More than 3 percent of all people live outside the country of their birth. But while the share of migrants in the world’s population has remained mostly stable for six decades, its composition has cha ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-21
From farm to fork, the international community is facing growing challenges in eradicating hunger and malnutrition. And yet while some parts of the world are obviously better endowed than others in te ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-20
The world’s central bankers have begun to discuss the idea of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), and now even the International Monetary Fund and its managing director, Christine Lagarde, are ta ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-20
When China finally has its inevitable growth recession – which will almost surely be amplified by a financial crisis, given the economy’s massive leverage – how will the rest of world be affected? W ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-08
For anyone still undecided about the consequences of global warming, the summer of 2018, one of the hottest on record, should have tipped the scales. Across far-flung longitudes and latitudes, regions ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-07
The United States has long held itself up as a bastion of democracy. It has promoted democracy around the world. It fought, at great cost, for democracy against fascism in Europe during World War II. ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-07