How does one accrue soft power? It’s an ever-pertinent question. At an age where Captain America, Harry Potter, and Doctor Who are pitted against movies glamourising revolutionary history and brandish ...More
EJ Insight2021-12-28
The International Monetary Fund seems determined to dilute one of the best examples of global cooperation in response to the economic disruptions induced by the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change. I ...More
EJ Insight2021-12-16
Westminster School, an elite private institution founded in London in 1560, has scrapped an ambitious plan to build six schools in China, after changes in curriculum ordered by the Ministry of Educati ...More
EJ Insight2021-12-16
Westminster School, an elite private institution founde ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightMark O’Neill2021年12月16日
When COVID-19 hit Ukraine, infectious diseases specialist Stepan Karabinyosh was at the center of the crisis. As he worked day after day in an intensive care unit, Karabinyosh found that his medical t ...More
EJ Insight2021-12-03
At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, analysts and pundits spun visions of how the crisis would reshape the global economy. Many heralded the opportunity to transform our financial systems, suppl ...More
EJ Insight2021-11-09
Teaching English in a foreign country is likely to be one of the most demanding experiences you'll ever have. It entails relocating to a new country, relocating to a new home, and beginning a new care ...More
EJ Insight2021-10-28
Much ink has been spilled on the question of telling th ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightA Hong Konger2021年10月27日
Much ink has been spilled on the question of telling the “China Story”. Some view the exercise as one of defense, as one about truth-telling, pushing back against the ongoing smears that China has end ...More
EJ Insight2021-10-25
The expiration of enhanced unemployment benefits in the United States has come and gone with no noticeable impact on the number of Americans seeking work. This should come as no surprise. Arguments ma ...More
EJ Insight2021-10-22
The words from Hymn No. 275 spin round one’s head: “The prisoner leaps to lose his chains.” You shall find out what they mean when you are in quarantine. What sort of civilised society compels its cit ...More
EJ Insight2021-10-11
Second chances are not common in this world, but one is arriving now. The scope and scale of government support for businesses and workers during the COVID-19 crisis of the last 18 months have swept a ...More
EJ Insight2021-10-08
Although created a few years before the world went into lockdown, something about the simple app-based game Among Us truly tapped into the pandemic zeitgeist like nothing else. On the one hand, it was ...More
EJ Insight2021-10-06
I am writing this with really cold fingers as I sit in Hong Kong International airport’s ‘Holding Area’ for arrivals awaiting the result of their Covid-19 PCR test. Many of those waiting are wrapped i ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-28
The northern summer of 2021 has brought a series of record-breaking natural disasters. The list – which includes intense flooding in China and Western Europe, heatwaves and drought in North America, e ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-20
DeltaHealth, a foreign-invested innovative healthcare provider in China specializing in cardiovascular care, today announced the completion of its latest financing round of more than US$100m, led by H ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-17
To tackle the land shortage problem, the Lands Resumption Ordinance is often propounded as a panacea. However, whenever a large-scale development project is launched, opposition from stakeholders is i ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-07
Despite significant advances in medical and healthcare technologies in the past year, the spotlight remains firmly fixed on public health and safety as Covid-19 outbreaks continue to occur around the ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-26
In the previous column, we introduced various forms of digital assets with a particular focus on security token offerings (STOs), a new, promising and regulated means of capital raising. In this colum ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-05
Fifty years to the month after Henry Kissinger’s secret visit to China to end a generation of hostility between Washington and Beijing, another American official, Wendy Sherman, was in China, this tim ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-03
