So did Leung Chun-ying get President Xi Jinping's blessing for a second term when the two met at the APEC summit in Peru last weekend? Judging by the official accounts, there was no such thing. The Ho ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-22
... peration (APEC) group said in a closing statement after meeting in Peru, Reuters reports. APEC talks in Lima have been dominated by doubts over the future of free trade and in particular the TPP trade ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-21
... ibly, the APEC summit in November. In fact, Beijing's heavy-handedness toward Taiwan in recent months has taken a heavy toll on Tsai's approval rating. Beijing's hard line toward Hong Kong and Taiwan ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-17
... ov. 19-10 APEC leaders’ meeting in Lima, Peru but by then there will be a new American president waiting in the wings. During the G-20 meeting last month, Obama picked up a theme from his first meetin ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-03
... the 2012 APEC summit was held. More than 2,400 visitors from 40 countries are expected to participate. This is the first of a three-part series that will serve as a curtain-raiser for the second East ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-08
... nes of an APEC meeting, some media outlets were fed reports that Xi had praised Leung for his tough stance amid a challenging environment. Hong Kong was at that time rocked by the Occupy pro-democrac ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-19
... During an APEC Summit in 2014, Russian leader Vladimir Putin gave his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping a dual-screen YotaPhone 2 as a gift. Since then, YotaPhone has been referred to as "a symbol of Sin ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-22
... peration (APEC). Much regional cooperation and discussion have emerged in East Asia in the wake of the 1997 Asian financial crisis, resulting in many frameworks centering on ASEAN nations, including C ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-20
... peration (APEC) meeting in Manila but especially so in Kuala Lumpur, where a series of meetings were held, including the US-ASEAN Summit and the East Asia Summit, both of which Obama attended. “The pr ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-24
... st year’s APEC Summit in Beijing, Putin gave Chinese leader Xi Jinping a dual-screen YotaPhone 2 as a gift. Since then, YotaPhone is referred as "a symbol of Sino-Russian cooperation". However, Yota D ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-21
... peration (APEC) summit in Manila. Abe said he welcomed the deal and "agreed to work together for the early signing of the agreement and the realization of cooperation in defence equipment". There have ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-20
Pacific-rim nations closed ranks against terrorism at the end of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Manila, after last week's terrorist attacks in Paris. The APEC group's 21 leaders vowed ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-20
Our Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying looked happy enough after shaking hands with his boss, Chinese President Xi Jinping, at the APEC summit in Manila on Wednesday. It many seem like a perfunctory gest ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-19
... es of the APEC summit in Manila. State news agency Xinhua reported that Xi affirmed Leung's work but did not mention "persistent effort" that might suggest support for his reelection, according to Min ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-19
... nding the APEC summit in Manila and it's possible he did not watch the match which was streamed on YouTube (Xi has banned YouTube in China). Neither did Leung Chun-ying, who is also in Manila, appear ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-18
... nding the APEC summit. Tell me about it. Earlier, Leung let it be known that he was going to a place where he would not be able to watch the contest. He was mum when pressed by Hong Kong journalists t ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-18
Manila is hosting APEC heads of state including Barack Obama and Xi Jinping but Paris looms over the high-powered summit after Friday's deadly attacks by Islamic State terrorists. Philippine law enfor ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-17
Commercial Radio Hong Kong deplored the refusal of Philippine immigration to allow one of its reporters entry to cover the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit this week in Manila, Ming Pao ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-17
... da of the APEC summit on Nov 18 and 19 in Manila, the South China Sea is expected to be discussed on the sidelines. US President Barack Obama, who arrived in Manila on Tuesday, will attend both meetin ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-17
... oil - the APEC Beijing summit in November last year and the Boao Forum in Hainan in May. So why did Xi have a sudden change of heart now? Kuomintang’s odds of victory in next year’s election have rang ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-06
