... is its decentralized nature – its ability to hand back control to individual users – which seems to run counter to the authoritarian government's obsession to keep everything under its control. Xi no ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-30
... the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China kicked off in Beijing on Monday. During the session, it is likely that a reshuffle in the party leadership as well as policies toward Hong K ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-29
... by major central banks, including the US Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, and the People’s Bank of China. Yet it is still only a matter of time before some shock triggers a new recession, ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-29
... s Club in Central last year. He was planning to open more eateries and eventually launch an initial public offering. Sadly, Ding’s Club said in a Facebook post that it will close down next month. The ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-29
... ughs. The central government is now cultivating much larger urban clusters – the Greater Bay Area (covering nine cities around the Pearl River Delta in Guangdong province, plus Hong Kong and Macau); t ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-29
... from the Central Intelligence Agency, which is looking to ramp up its reliance on the cloud, with plans to solicit tens of billions of dollars of work from tech companies next year. Amazon already ha ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-29
... tower in Central had in fact been doctored – there never was a slogan. The AFP fact-checking results do not cover just Hong Kong. One photo claiming to show the Indian Prime Minister cleaning a beach ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-28
... arm among central banks around the world, amid concerns over its threat to the global monetary system and implications to data privacy and money laundering activities. China’s parliament on Saturday p ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-28
... m east of central London and British police are still trying to establish the identity of victims who in many cases lacked identity documents. In a poor rice-growing area of northern Vietnam, communit ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-28
... then the central authorities can immediately switch to another candidate. Now, turning our attention back to the FT report, we should bear in mind that Chan and Tang have both been tipped as chief ex ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-25
... Solomons’ Central Province and China Sam Enterprise Group were made public shortly after the Pacific nation switched diplomatic ties from Taiwan to Beijing in September. Headquartered in Beijing, Sam ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-25
... , China’s central bank has been working on its own national digital currency for the past few years. Appearing before the US Congress on Wednesday, Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said Libra ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-24
... istics on central bank holdings of foreign exchange reserves have become much more reliable since China began reporting its holdings. And the SWIFT payments system issues monthly data on the use of ma ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-24
... that the central authorities replaced Hong Kong's first chief executive, Tung Chee-hwa, in 2005 before his term ended. That push came after a million people took to the streets to protest Tung's poor ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-23
... les) from central London. Police said the driver of the truck, a 25-year-old man from Northern Ireland, had been arrested on suspicion of murder. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was appalled. “I ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-23
... both the central authorities and the SAR government are continuing to endorse the iron-fist approach of law enforcement adopted by the police. At this stage, we simply can’t see any way out of the cr ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-21
... an of the Central Military Commission, returned to this topic when presiding over a meeting of the party’s Politburo Standing Committee earlier this month. He said the National Day celebrations had se ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-21
... European Central Bank decided to restart quantitative easing which pushed down the value of the euro. Meanwhile, China has permitted the renminbi to depreciate against the USD, undermining the impact ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-21
... yshire in central England, was draped in the EU flag. “I am incensed that we are not being listened to,” she said. “We feel that we are voiceless. This is a national disaster waiting to happen and it ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-19
