Taiwan’s air force scrambled armed fighters on Sunday to intercept Chinese jets that flew around the island claimed by Beijing as its own, in a move denounced by Taiwan’s Defence Ministry as a threat ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-10
US President Donald Trump is proposing a 21 percent cut in foreign aid and slashes to social safety net programs in his $4.8 trillion budget proposal for fiscal 2021, Reuters reports, citing senior ad ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-10
Bernard Madoff is dying of kidney failure and has fewer than 18 months to live, and is seeking to end his 150-year prison sentence for masterminding what prosecutors have called the largest Ponzi sche ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-06
Former US Vice President Joe Biden vowed to go on fighting for the Democratic presidential nomination despite what he called the “gut punch” he took in Iowa, where partial results show the political v ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-06
US President Donald Trump was acquitted on Wednesday in his Senate impeachment trial, saved by fellow Republicans who rallied to protect him nine months before he asks voters in a deeply divided Ameri ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-06
Pete Buttigieg took a narrow lead in the first batch of long-delayed results on Tuesday from the chaotic Iowa Democratic Party caucuses, and former Vice President Joe Biden trailed badly in fourth pla ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-05
The US Democratic presidential nominating race got off to a chaotic start in Iowa on Monday, as the results of the state’s caucuses were delayed for hours while party officials double-checked “inconsi ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-04
The US Commerce Department on Monday finalized a new rule to impose anti-subsidy duties on products from countries that it has determined undervalue their currencies against the dollar, Reuters report ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-04
Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. asked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) not to finalize its designation of the China tech giant as a risk to US national security, calling the effort “unlawful a ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-04
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued rules on Sunday to implement new restrictions on Americans who have recently visited China to address the threat of the coronavirus, Reuters reports ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-03
The first death from the novel coronavirus outside of China was reported in the Philippines on Sunday. A 44-year-old Chinese man from the city of Wuhan in Hubei province, the epicenter of the epidemic ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-03
The United Kingdom finally cast off from the European Union on Friday for an uncertain future, with Brexiteers claiming victory and popping champagne corks for an “independence day” they said marked a ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-01
Can a virus that is invisible to the naked eye do what millions of Hong Kong people could not? A million people marched peacefully. Then two million. They got nowhere. Months of violent protests follo ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-30
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今日信報時事評論STRAIGHT-SHOOTING褚簡寧 Michael Chugani2020年01月30日
Under a phase one trade deal signed recently, China would have to buy US$52.4 billion of energy products from the United States in two years’ time, including liquefied natural gas, crude oil and refin ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-29
On Jan. 15, US President Donald Trump and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He signed a “phase one” agreement aimed at containing the two countries’ long-running bilateral trade war. But no sooner had the deal ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-29
The US government sued five US companies and three individuals, alleging they were behind hundreds of millions of fraudulent "robocalls" that scammed elderly Americans and others into “massive financi ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-29
Prime Minister Boris Johnson granted Huawei a limited role in Britain’s 5G mobile network, frustrating a global attempt by the United States to exclude the Chinese telecoms giant from the West’s next- ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-29
