China’s exports fell at a faster pace in September while imports contracted for a fifth straight month, pointing to further weakness in the economy and underlining the need for more stimulus as the Si ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-14
US Senator Elizabeth Warren’s Democratic presidential campaign challenged Facebook’s policy that exempts politicians’ ads from fact-checking, by running ads on the social media platform containing the ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-14
President Xi Jinping warned that any attempt to divide China will be crushed, as Beijing faces political challenges in months-long protests in Hong Kong and US criticism over its treatment of Muslim m ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-14
US President Donald Trump on Friday outlined the first phase of a deal to end a trade war with China and suspended a threatened tariff hike, Reuters reports. But officials on both sides said much more ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-14
US President Donald Trump said on Thursday trade talks with China are “going well” and “should be wrapping up soon”. He was scheduled to meet with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He at the White House today. ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-11
Top US and Chinese negotiators wrapped up a first day of trade talks in more than two months on Thursday as business groups expressed optimism the two sides might be able to ease a 15-month trade war ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-11
Turkey pounded Kurdish militia in northeast Syria for a second day on Thursday, forcing tens of thousands of people to flee and killing at least dozens of people in a cross-border assault, Reuters rep ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-11
China has lowered expectations for significant progress from this week’s trade talks with the United States, even as US President Donald Trump on Wednesday expressed fresh optimism, Reuters reports. W ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-10
The United States will soon issue licenses allowing some US companies to supply non-sensitive goods to Chinese telecoms gear maker Huawei Technologies, the New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-10
Turkish troops and their Syrian rebel allies attacked Kurdish militia in northeast Syria on Wednesday, pounding them with air strikes and artillery before starting a cross-border ground operation that ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-10
Goldman Sachs is reviewing its involvement in Megvii Technology's planned initial public offering after the US government placed the Chinese artificial intelligence firm on a human rights blacklist, R ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-09
The United States has imposed visa restrictions on Chinese government and Communist Party officials it believes responsible for the detention or abuse of Muslim minorities in Xinjiang province, Reuter ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-09
The White House said on Tuesday that it will refuse to cooperate with an “illegitimate, unconstitutional” congressional impeachment inquiry, setting Republican President Donald Trump on a collision co ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-09
Just as the Sino-US trade war and the political crisis in Hong Kong are reaching a critical moment, the foreign affairs committees at the US Senate and House of Representatives have approved the Hong ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-08
US lawmakers on both sides of the aisle condemned President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw American troops from northeastern Syria, which could open the way for a Turkish strike on Kurdish-led fi ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-08
The administration of US President Donald Trump appears to have a clear foreign trade policy that uses tariffs to force its trade partners to the negotiation table. Amid the intense US-China trade war ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-04
President Donald Trump again invited foreign interference in a US presidential election by publicly calling on China to investigate Democratic political rival Joe Biden, the kind of request that has a ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-04
While many US companies have been doing business in China for decades, it was only early this year that the Chinese government opened its market for local payment services to foreign firms. PayPal, on ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-03
The United States said it will enact 10 percent tariffs on European-made Airbus planes and 25 percent duties on French wine, Scotch and Irish whiskies and cheese from across the continent as punishmen ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-03
