... 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
... the southwestern city of Ahvaz where Iranian officials had gathered to watch an annual event marking the start of the Islamic Republic’s 1980-88 war with Iraq. Soldiers crawled about as gunfire crack ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-24
... tics of a Western Hemisphere country is of grave concern to the United States” and would result in a re-evaluation of its relationship with El Salvador. Not surprisingly, the Chinese government pointe ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-20
... tics of a Western Hemisphere country is of grave concer ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightFrank Ching2018年09月20日
... ry of the western allies in the two World Wars. Yet over the years, the Canadian government has been painstakingly promoting the notion that the only reason for the government of Canada to go war is t ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-19
... han their western counterparts in terms of compensation and employment conditions. According to an international study published last year, the purchasing power of teachers in China ranked third to th ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-18
... led north-western province of Xinjiang. The focus of Chinese investment takes on added significance as Pakistan weighs options to solve its financial crisis, including a request for up to US$12 billio ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-17
... ed to key western media outlets rather than to the local media, which picked up the rumor and the group finally made an official announcement. Such an arrangement allowed the public to digest and disc ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-13
