The Trump administration on Wednesday gave Huawei its second reprieve this week, allowing some suppliers to restart sales to the Chinese telecoms giant after it was placed on a trade blacklist over na ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-21
Lawyers for Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. asked a Canadian court to immediately stay proceedings seeking to extradite the company’s chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou to the United States, Reuters re ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-21
The US House of Representatives passed two bills to back protesters in Hong Kong and send a warning to China about human rights, with President Donald Trump expected to sign them into law, despite del ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-21
US President Donald Trump said he is considering whether to exempt the US company from tariffs on imports from China, Reuters reports. “We’re looking at that,” Trump said on Wednesday in answer to a r ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-21
Completion of a “phase one” US-China trade deal could slide into next year, trade experts and people close to the White House said, as Beijing presses for more extensive tariff rollbacks and the Trump ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-21
As US Federal Reserve officials hone their monetary policy playbook in preparation for the next economic downturn, it appears they will eschew more controversial approaches tried by other global centr ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-21
Who authorized Zang Tiewei to assert that Hong Kong's High Court has no power to rule on the constitutionality of Carrie Lam's executive order prohibiting face masks? Of course, it was to be expected ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-20
The United States would raise tariffs on Chinese imports if no deal is reached with Beijing to end a trade war, US President Donald Trump said, threatening an escalation of the spat that has damaged e ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-20
The US Senate unanimously passed legislation aimed at protecting human rights in Hong Kong amid a crackdown on a pro-democracy protest movement, drawing condemnation from Beijing. The Hong Kong Human ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-20
North Korea said on Monday that it is not interested in meaningless talks with the United States just so President Donald Trump had something to boast about, and demanded an end to what it called a po ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-19
California said it will halt all purchases of new vehicles for state government fleets from GM, Toyota, Fiat Chrysler and other automakers backing US President Donald Trump in a battle to strip the st ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-19
The Trump administration has issued a new 90-day extension allowing US companies to continue doing business with China’s Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., Reuters reports. After adding Huawei to an econom ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-19
The US Congress should enact legislation that would suspend the special economic status Hong Kong enjoys under US law should China deploy forces to crush protests in the territory, a congressional adv ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-15
Amazon said on Thursday that it is contesting the Pentagon’s award of an up to US$10 billion cloud computing deal to Microsoft, expressing concern that politics got in the way of a fair contracting pr ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-15
The top US diplomat in Ukraine, testifying on Wednesday in the first televised hearing of the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump, linked the president more directly to a pressure campa ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-14
US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Wednesday told Congress that negative interest rates aren’t appropriate for the US economy at a time when it is enjoying growth, a strong labor market and ste ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-14
While China and the United States once again appear to be close to a trade agreement, the fact that it is a “first phase” accord makes it clear that intractable issues have been left for a second and, ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-14
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今日信報時事評論EJ InsightFrank Ching2019年11月14日
