Police used tear gas and pepper spray to disperse protesters over the weekend, breaking a relative calm that has lingered in the city shortly before and after the Nov. 24 District Council elections. T ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-02
With US President Donald Trump signing the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act into law, it means that from now on Washington will be examining the status of human rights and the degree of autono ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-02
China’s factory activity unexpectedly expanded at the quickest pace in almost three years in November, with solid increases in output and new orders, a private business survey showed on Monday. But bu ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-02
Clashes between police and suspected cartel gunmen in a northern Mexican town killed 21 people this weekend, Reuters reports, citing local authorities. The government of the northern state of Coahuila ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-02
Beijing’s top priority in any phase one trade deal with the United States is the removal of existing tariffs on Chinese goods, China’s Global Times newspaper reported on Sunday, amid uncertainty on wh ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-02
Thousands of people gathered in Central on Thursday night, many waving the American flag, to express their gratitude to the United States for legislation in support of the pro-democracy protests in Ho ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-29
US President Donald Trump made a surprise Thanksgiving visit to American troops in Afghanistan on Thursday and said he believes Taliban insurgents in the country will agree to a ceasefire. “The Taliba ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-29
China warned the United States on Thursday that it will take "firm counter measures" in response to US legislation of the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act, and said attempts to interfere in Ho ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-28
The "bicycle theory" used to be a metaphor for international trade policy. Just as standing still on a bicycle is not an option – one must keep moving forward or else fall over – so it was said that t ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-28
Following the passage of The Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act by both the US Senate and the House of Representatives, US President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed it into law. The legislation ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-28
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed into law the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act, sending a message of support for the pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong even as he tries to secu ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-28
Passage of the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act by both houses of the US congress is a humiliating blow for China and a triumph for the Hong Kong protesters and their message to the global aud ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-28
The United States on Tuesday set out a procedure to protect its telecommunications networks and their supply chains from national security threats, saying it would consider whether to bar transactions ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-27
The US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee on Tuesday invited President Donald Trump to its first impeachment hearing, scheduled for Dec. 4, starting a new phase of the inquiry that could lea ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-27
The inquiry into President Donald Trump’s dealings with Ukraine will enter a new phase shortly after Congress returns to Washington next week when lawmakers issue a report that could lead to impeachme ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-26
Billionaire media mogul Michael Bloomberg jumped into the race for the Democratic US presidential nomination on Sunday, aiming beat fellow New Yorker Donald Trump in the November 2020 election. "I’m r ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-25
Tesla Inc. unveiled its first electric pickup truck that looked like a futuristic angular armored vehicle in gunmetal gray, as the California company took aim at the heart of Detroit automakers’ profi ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-22
Microsoft Corp. said it has been granted a license from the US government to export software to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., Reuters reports. “On November 20, the US Department of Commerce granted Mi ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-22
This past May and August, escalations in the trade and technology conflict between the United States and China rattled stock markets and pushed bond yields to historic lows. But that was then: since t ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-21
