... persisted well after the worst of the pandemic is over, in an economic “long Covid” shock. Travel bans, border restrictions, social distancing rules, and factory closures, have combined to wreak logis ...More
EJ Insight2021-11-23
... now than we did then. For all the hot air about high growth rates, low interest rates, and big deficits, America is not even back to the starting gate. That means there is no way that our current inf ...More
EJ Insight2021-11-23
... rders" between the mainland and Hong Kong. Long overdue ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightBrian Wong2021年11月23日
Our world, amid the pandemic, is fraught with economic uncertainty, but our technology is advancing at an unprecedented pace. To secure Hong Kong’s status as an international financial centre, we must ...More
EJ Insight2021-11-22
News has emerged that Hong Kong officials have been meeting with their mainland Chinese counterparts in seeking to arrange for the reopening of “borders” between the mainland and Hong Kong. Long overd ...More
EJ Insight2021-11-22
... million fewer cars to be produced this year than last. TSMC controls more than half the global market for made-to-order chips and an even higher share for the most advanced processors. Global chip sal ...More
EJ Insight2021-11-22
When applied to droughts, wildfires, hurricanes, floods, or other extreme weather events, the term “unprecedented” is getting old. In August, when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change releas ...More
EJ Insight2021-11-19
... he most powerful weapons against pneumonia – the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV). This leaves a lot of children – more than 350 million under the age of five – dangerously exposed. Not even the w ...More
EJ Insight2021-11-19
Costa Rica is celebrating 200 years of independence this year. It is an opportunity to honor our ancestors and think about our descendants, and we invite the world to celebrate with us. Those who cann ...More
EJ Insight2021-11-18
During the COP26 Climate Change conference, participants were pleasantly surprised by a “shock agreement” between US and China to take joint-action to combat climate change. Similarly, during the rece ...More
EJ Insight2021-11-18
One positive effect under the pandemic these days is we have more time to meet up with old friends. But one common thing I discovered from these gatherings is that many friends who work in China retur ...More
EJ Insight2021-11-17
“China is not liked!” I said. It was an evening in 2009 when I was casually discussing soft power with my mates from graduate school. One of my friends from mainland China quickly responded, “Who care ...More
EJ Insight2021-11-17
... genuine power. Yet it was also the vindictiveness of it ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightBrian Wong2021年11月17日
... nomically weaker states and regions to cope with the consequences of the pandemic. Since 2000, the EU has repeatedly demonstrated its capacity to deliver solutions and show solidarity. But the never-e ...More
EJ Insight2021-11-16
