... Arab and Western diplomatic sources. The man leading that interrogation: Saud al-Qahtani. France intervened to free Hariri, but Western capitals did not take Riyadh to task for detaining a head of go ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-23
... ointed at western Europe. The US had responded by stationing Pershing and Cruise missiles in Europe. But this provoked a wave of protests from anti-nuclear campaigners, who felt the deployment turned ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-22
Growing Western political and corporate reluctance to be associated with Saudi Arabia in the wake of the suspected killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi spotlights fundamentally different investment s ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-19
... ions with western countries and corporations. Trump said he was waiting for the results so that “we can get to the bottom of this very soon” and that he would be making a statement about it at some po ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-19
... ggering a western containment. Nevertheless, as China’s economic heft continued to grow into global scale in recent years, it appears the Chinese leadership has let success go to its head, and simply ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-18
... among the Western media was that the "one country, two systems" principle seemed to be working properly and it was pretty much business as usual in Hong Kong. However, in recent years, such optimistic ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-18
... sponse to Western sanctions could entail a reconciliation with the kingdom’s arch enemy, Iran, would make his assertion seem more like a geopolitical and economic bluff. Meanwhile, in what appeared to ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-16
... ponded to Western statements by saying it would retaliate against any pressure or economic sanctions “with greater action”, and Arab allies rallied to support it. The Saudi riyal fell to its lowest in ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-16
... of CPEC’s Western route, linking the province of Balochistan with the troubled region of Xinjiang in north-western China. In doing so, Pakistan implicitly targeted a key Chinese driver for CPEC: the p ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-11
... ut of the Western Pacific, using “debt diplomacy” to expand its global influence, taking advantage of the US on trade and technology transfer, as well as “meddling in America’s democracy”, etc. From B ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-10
Recently I made a trip to Papua New Guinea, the remote southwestern Pacific island country that is due to host the 2018 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in November. Before I set out fo ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-09
Americans William Nordhaus and Paul Romer, pioneers in adapting the western economic growth model to focus on environmental issues and sharing the benefits of technology, won the 2018 Nobel Economics ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-09
Western countries issued coordinated denunciations of Russia for running what they described as a global hacking campaign, Reuters reports. In some of the strongest language aimed at Moscow since the ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-05
... er giants Western Union and MoneyGram. The latest development marks the first time XRP goes into full commercial use by financial services firm. Ripple explains how xRapid works in cross-border paymen ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-04
... , and the Western powers would have done well to start mobilizing a proper defense. The contemporary debate is similar. The record of populist economics in Europe is neither particularly bad nor parti ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-03
... ddling in Western elections. “We have been trying to send a message to Russia for several years that we know they are violating the treaty; we have shown Russia the evidence that we have that they are ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-03
... ubject to western norms and seeks to project a new conception of the world and China’s role in it. Human rights will move to the forefront of the increasingly harsh US-China confrontation next month a ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-02
... erous for Western leaders. We all have seen how small and temporary is the effect of the placebo of wrongly-called competitive devaluations. Now, what about “world dominance overvaluations”? That is t ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-02
... ygram and Western Union. For the senders, the new services can be a revelation. For years, the only way Filipino maid Rochelle Bumanglag could send money home was by spending her off days on Sunday wa ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-28
... curity in Western Europe. His concerns came as the government in Berlin agreed a deal with Gazprom to construct a second gas pipeline (Nord Stream 2) connecting the two countries. Nord Stream 1 was pr ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-26
