White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow will host a meeting with semiconductor and software executives on Monday to discuss the US ban on sales to China’s Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., Reuters repor ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-22
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday called China’s treatment of its Uighur Muslim minority the “stain of the century” and accused Beijing of pressuring countries not to attend a US-hosted co ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-19
The United States said on Thursday that a US Navy ship had “destroyed” an Iranian drone in the Strait of Hormuz after the aircraft threatened the vessel. The Pentagon said in a statement that USS Boxe ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-19
US President Donald Trump said his administration would investigate whether Alphabet Inc.’s Google supports the Chinese government, accusations that a company official refuted hours later at a Senate ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-17
國際貨幣基金組織（the International Monetary Fund）總裁拉加德（Christin ...全文
名家論壇Project Syndicate2019年07月16日
US President Donald Trump on Monday seized on slowing economic growth in China as evidence that Washington's tariffs were having “a major effect”, and warned that his administration could pile on more ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-16
The US Federal Trade Commission has approved a roughly US$5 billion settlement with Facebook Inc. over its investigation into the social media company’s handling of user data, Reuters reports, citing ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-15
Iran is ready to hold talks with the United States if Washington lifts sanctions and returns to the 2015 nuclear deal it quit last year, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said. “We have always believed ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-15
A proposal to prevent big technology companies from functioning as financial institutions or issuing digital currencies has been circulated for discussion by the Democratic majority that leads the Hou ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-15
The US may approve licenses for companies to restart new sales to China's Huawei Technologies in two to four weeks, Reuters reports, citing a source familiar with the matter. According to the report, ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-15
US President Donald Trump criticized Bitcoin, Facebook’s proposed Libra digital coin and other cryptocurrencies and demanded that companies seek a banking charter and make themselves subject to US and ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-12
Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen arrived in the United States on Thursday on a trip that has angered Beijing, warning that democracy must be defended and that the island faced threats from “overseas f ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-12
As Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell kept the focus Thursday on global risks that could trigger a Fed rate cut in coming weeks, his colleagues from regional Fed districts painted a rosier picture ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-12
After decades dominated by globalization, trade is being reconfigured as a result of geopolitical, technological and other changes. Sustainability could be a big winner from this process. US President ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-11
Five boats believed to belong to Iranian Revolutionary Guards approached a British oil tanker in the Gulf on Wednesday and asked it to stop in Iranian waters close by, but withdrew after a British war ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-11
Britain’s ambassador to Washington quit on Wednesday after days of stinging criticism from US President Donald Trump, leading to accusations that Boris Johnson, the favorite to be the next British pri ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-11
US President Donald Trump ordered an investigation into France’s planned tax on technology companies, a probe that could lead to the United States imposing new tariffs or other trade restrictions, Reu ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-11
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has set the stage for the first US rate cut in a decade this month, as records from policymakers’ latest meeting showed increasing fear that a US-China trade war ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-11
The United States would hope to see a freeze in the North Korean nuclear program as the start of a process of denuclearization, not the end of it, Washington said on Tuesday, Reuters reports. “(A) fre ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-10
