Prime Minister Boris Johnson won a resounding election victory in the United Kingdom on Friday that will allow him to end three years of political paralysis and take Britain out of the European Union ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-13
Although it has come as no surprise that US President Donald Trump eventually signed the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act into law, there are still concerns in the local business community abo ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-12
Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swede who inspired millions of young people to take action against climate change, has been named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year for 2019. Thunberg launched a grass ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-12
The US Army plans to fund construction of rare earths processing facilities, part of an urgent push by Washington to secure domestic supply of the minerals used to make military weapons and electronic ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-11
According to a report published on Sunday by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), North Korea's key official mouthpiece, Pyongyang carried out a “very significant test” at the Sohae satellite launch ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-11
Just as the civil unrest in Hong Kong is considered the most serious popular challenge to the authority of President Xi Jinping since he took power in 2012, the young protesters in this city of ours h ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-11
Top officials from Canada, Mexico and the United States signed a fresh overhaul of a quarter-century-old trade pact that aims to improve enforcement of worker rights and hold down prices for biologic ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-11
Democrats in the US House of Representatives announced impeachment charges against President Donald Trump on Tuesday, making him the fourth president in US history to face a formal effort to remove hi ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-11
Chinese soy importers bought at least five bulk cargo shipments of US soybeans, or about 300,000 tons, for shipment in January and February after Beijing offered the buyers at least 1 million tons in ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-10
Amazon on Monday accused US President Donald Trump of exerting “improper pressure” and bias that led the Pentagon to award a US$10 billion cloud contract to rival Microsoft Corp, Reuters reports. In a ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-10
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Last week, leaders of its 29 member states gathered for a two-day summit in London. And for the v ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-09
China said it hopes to make a trade deal with the United States as soon as possible, Reuters reports. “On the question of China-US trade talks and negotiations, we wish that both sides can, on the fou ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-09
People held in controversial training camps in Xinjiang have “graduated” and new students will have the “freedom to come and go”, the government of China’s far western region said on Monday, slamming ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-09
US President Donald Trump said North Korean leader Kim Jong-un risks losing “everything” if he resumes hostility and his country must denuclearize, after the North said it had carried out a “successfu ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-09
China’s exports in November shrank for the fourth consecutive month, underscoring persistent pressures on manufacturers from the Sino-US trade war, but growth in imports may be a sign that Beijing’s s ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-09
China said on Friday it will waive import tariffs for some soybeans and pork shipments from the United States, as the two sides try to thrash out an agreement to defuse their protracted trade war. The ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-06
