Humanity currently faces multiple, interlinked existential crises. The catastrophic consequences of climate change, ecological degradation, and biodiversity loss have cascading knock-on effects on hum ...More
EJ Insight2022-05-12
Wars often erupt and persist because of the two sides’ miscalculations regarding their relative power. In the case of Ukraine, Russia blundered badly by underestimating the resolve of Ukrainians to fi ...More
EJ Insight2022-05-12
We need only look at the front-page news to see that companies are reassessing their business practices in areas ranging from preventing and addressing forced labor in their supply chains, reconsideri ...More
EJ Insight2022-05-11
... rns out that the metaverse is a lot closer than many of us expected. As Bloomberg estimates that the metaverse may be a US$800 billion market by 2024, more and more businesses will start entering the ...More
EJ Insight2022-05-11
I get a lot of enquiries these days about studying at Oxbridge. As someone who has spent 7 years at Oxford, starting as a wee undergrad and climbing (I suppose) my way through to the postgraduate stag ...More
EJ Insight2022-05-11
... its internationalism, as opposed to inward-looking nati ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightBrian Wong2022年05月11日
... where All At Once,意思是「什麼都有,什麼都在同時發生」,英文片名比中文片名更貼切,大銀幕、大 ...全文
Hong Kong’s value to its country remains its openness, cosmopolitanism, and fundamental willingness to embrace and take on the unknown. It is its internationalism, as opposed to inward-looking nativis ...More
EJ Insight2022-05-10
The zero-Covid policy will drive China’s GDP growth this year below four per cent and China has lost its credibility as the best sourcing location in the world, the president of the European Union Cha ...More
EJ Insight2022-05-10
The universities in Australia made a bold move last year, lowering the tuition fees by 42% in five subjects, including two medical-related subjects, nursing and clinical psychology. According to the E ...More
EJ Insight2022-05-10
A growing crescendo of commentary places the blame for the current surge in US inflation squarely on the Federal Reserve. But much of the criticism is stupefyingly naive about the political pressures ...More
EJ Insight2022-05-10
When I first met Jean-Louis Missika, then-Deputy Mayor of Paris in charge of architecture and urban planning, in 2014, he welcomed me with an urgent question: How can we fast-track urban innovation? Y ...More
EJ Insight2022-05-09
Europe seems to change most decisively as a result of crises. The European Union was created in the aftermath of World War II. The 2008 global financial crisis and the eurozone crisis that followed le ...More
EJ Insight2022-05-06
Global geopolitical attention remains focused on the war in Ukraine. But a significant shift, potentially even more serious in the long run than Russia’s invasion of its neighbor, seems to be occurrin ...More
EJ Insight2022-05-06
When Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine, private-debt crises were probably already brewing – albeit hidden from view – in many parts of the world, as a result of the economic disruptions caused by the ...More
EJ Insight2022-05-06
... rstands that you can do this in three ways: by coercion, by payment, or by attraction – in other words, the proverbial “sticks, carrots, and honey.” In the short run, sticks are more effective than ho ...More
EJ Insight2022-05-05
China’s support of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is stirring the hatred of the governments and peoples in Eastern Europe and undoing a decade of patient diplomacy and building economic ties. Hu ...More
EJ Insight2022-05-05
... a found that 57% of SMB respondents expect their revenue to stay at a normal level or even grow in the next three months. While the relaxing of social-distancing restrictions has undoubtedly eased som ...More
EJ Insight2022-05-05
... ring the hatred of the governments and peoples in Easte ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightMark O’Neill2022年05月05日
Life is always a mismatch. We have waited 20 years for yen to come down to a low level but only few could have the luxury of traveling to Japan due to the pandemic. But of course that does not stop th ...More
EJ Insight2022-05-04