This past week has been a rarity of sorts in Hong Kong – with the FinTech week, Financial Summit, a summit on the city’s relations with ASEAN coalescing around the same five days or so, and the Rugby ...More
EJ Insight2022-11-03
My second favourite Billy Joel offering – save from the (in)famous ‘We Didn’t Start the Fire’ – is ‘Vienna’. The lyrics begin as such: Slow down you crazy childYou're so ambitious for a juvenile For a ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-28
One of the questions I get asked most frequently is, “How can we help the youth of Hong Kong?” Alternatively, “Is there hope still for the youth of Hong Kong?” The standard answers by many to such que ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-27
The answer seems obvious. After all, it has everything to do with the economic strength and political endurance of the state, surely. The more resilient the economy, the more capable it is at deliveri ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-20
I had the rare pleasure of taking a brief break from work last weekend. So what did I do? I brought along two books – one of which was Kissinger’s latest, Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy, an ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-19
I do not think, as of yet, we are in a Cold War. But we are getting there. For all the talk of financial integratedness and integration, the American and Chinese economies are shifting towards a heigh ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-14
There’s a saying in Cantonese – which translates roughly to “I’ve had more salt than you’ve had rice.” One would be hard-pressed to find the English equivalent – but I guess the closest would be, “I, ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-14
Putin is running out of options. More precisely, he is running out of moves he could turn to – short of mounting a full-blown war against Europe and the United States. One that he won’t win. One that ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-07
On great power politics – some say, the East shall prevail; others say, the West shall win out. The presumption underpinning the “X wins, Y loses” logic, is that the nature of hegemonic contests is in ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-06
It’s THAT time of the year again – university/college admissions are well under way, and for many, such as those opting for EA/ED or applying for Oxbridge, the upcoming month (or weeks, even) would be ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-28
Britain is at the cusp of a spectacular disaster. By late July this year, the triple whammy of COVID-19, Brexit, and the war in Ukraine had precipitated an unprecedented inflation crisis in the countr ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-27
These days, reading commentary on Hong Kong is a tad like watching someone kicking when down. Y’know – it’s easy to hate on and dismiss Hong Kong, and it’s even easier to give into the scaremongering ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-23
On September 21, President Vladimir Putin declared that Russia would turn to partial mobilisation of the country’s population over what he had previously dubbed a ‘special military operation’ in Ukrai ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-22
There are certainly better times to be a youth in Hong Kong. With skyrocketing property prices, a monolithic economy that is running out of ideas (though by no means growth), and increasingly stiff co ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-16
Queen Elizabeth II passed away after a long – and near-unprecedented-in-length tenure of over seven decades. I was in New York City when the news of her passing broke. The city was swept by a subdued, ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-16
In Britain, Liz Truss replaced Boris Johnson as the Leader of the Conservative Party on September 5 – and was swiftly appointed Prime Minister by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on September 6. Truss’ ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-09
It’s high time that we did away with any and all quarantine restrictions for incoming tourists who are triple-jabbed. Hong Kong must open up, for it is only through opening up that we can maintain our ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-08
A quick recap. We were last discussing the implications of the rise of AI – and the potential downside risks and dangers of such. We also dispelled relatively alarmist and uncaveated worries concernin ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-02
Artificial Intelligence – synthetic entities that possess ‘intelligence’, defined by some to denote the capacity to develop and adhere to complex commands, engage in some form of reasoning processes t ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-01
I’ve been asked many a time – why debate? What are the merits of such an adversarial and intrinsically intractable sport, rooted in often little more than mere bravado and bluster? Why should we seek ...More
EJ Insight2022-08-26
