The United Kingdom's opposition Labour Party said it will trigger an emergency debate in parliament next week to try to stop Prime Minister Boris Johnson taking the nation out of the European Union wi ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-30
The Trump administration made official its extra 5 percent tariff on US$300 billion in Chinese imports and set collection dates of Sept. 1 and Dec. 15, prompting hundreds of US retail, footwear, toy a ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-29
美國總統特朗普堅拒公開報稅紀錄所引發的國會調查，周二出現新轉機。被傳召提供有關資料的德意志銀行稱，持有特朗普及 ...全文
Social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook have removed and suspended accounts that are believed to be part of a China-backed campaign to vilify the Hong Kong protest movement. Twitter has re ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-28
The US Commerce Department has received more than 130 applications from companies for licenses to sell US goods to China’s Huawei Technologies, Reuters reports, citing sources. But the Trump administr ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-28
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Tuesday that he wants French leader Emmanuel Macron to withdraw the “insults” made against him before he considers accepting a US$20 million offer from the G ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-28
Equity markets had their best moment last week when the United States announced that the imposition of additional tariffs on Chinese imports would be delayed from Sept. 1st to Dec. 15th – after the ma ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-27
US President Donald Trump said on Monday that he will meet Iran’s president under the right circumstances to end a confrontation over a 2015 nuclear deal, Reuters reports. Talks were underway to see h ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-27
China's currency, the renminbi, hit a fresh 11-year low against the US dollar on Monday amid growing worries over the escalating Sino-US trade war and its potential fallout on global growth. The onsho ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-26
China said on Saturday that it strongly opposes Washington’s decision to levy additional tariffs on US$550 billion worth of Chinese goods, and warned the US of consequences if it does not end its “wro ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-26
President Donald Trump wishes he had raised tariffs on Chinese goods even higher last week, the White House said on Sunday, Reuters reports. Trump raised eyebrows on the sidelines of the G7 summit whe ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-26
Iran’s foreign minister paid a visit to a G7 summit in France on Sunday, an unexpected twist to a meeting already troubled by differences between US President Donald Trump and Western allies over a ra ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-26
US President Donald Trump lashed back at a new round of Chinese tariffs by heaping an additional 5 percent duty on some US$550 billion in targeted Chinese goods in the latest tit-for-tat trade war esc ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-24
The staggering turnout of some 1.7 million people at the August 18 rally once again demonstrated the solidarity and determination of Hongkongers to keep fighting to preserve the city's autonomy and fr ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-23
The social turmoil gripping Hong Kong over the past two months might appear a purely domestic issue arising from the city's political system. But if we look at the big picture, we can tell that the en ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-23
There are three negative supply shocks that could trigger a global recession by 2020. All of them reflect political factors affecting international relations, two involve China, and the United States ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-23
US Federal Reserve policymakers were deeply divided over whether to cut interest rates last month but were united in wanting to signal they were not on a preset path to more cuts, Reuters reports, cit ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-22
As world attention focused on pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, India all of a sudden moved to strip the special region of Jammu and Kashmir of the autonomy guaranteed to it in India’s constitution ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-22
Hundreds of demonstrators staged a sit-in protest at the Yuen Long MTR Station on Wednesday night, the same spot where white-clad men attacked protesters and ordinary commuters exactly a month ago, an ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-22
