The world heaved a sigh of relief this month when the feared “red wave” of Republican victories in the US midterms failed to materialize. While the Republicans took the House of Representatives by a n ...More
EJ Insight2022-12-07
China, through brute force, high-tech surveillance and a rare willingness to temper its harsh zero Covid policy, has successfully snuffed out its worst protests since the Tiananmen Square demonstratio ...More
EJ Insight2022-12-06
Swiftly rising interest rates have punctured the cryptocurrency bubble, exposing fragility, bad governance, and even fraud in many corners, most notably at the crypto exchange FTX. And FTX’s spectacul ...More
EJ Insight2022-12-06
Could the United States and China go to war over Taiwan? China regards the island 90 miles (145 kilometers) off its coast as a renegade province, and President Xi Jinping raised the issue at the recen ...More
EJ Insight2022-12-06
The world economy is lurching toward an unprecedented confluence of economic, financial, and debt crises, following the explosion of deficits, borrowing, and leverage in recent decades. In the private ...More
EJ Insight2022-12-05
Infrastructure investment will drive Hong Kong’s economic recovery, the projects will soar to HK$300 billion per year in the next few years,. However, a study by Oxford Global Projects found that mega ...More
EJ Insight2022-12-05
Mary Chan described how buying a house in the UK had driven her to distraction. “The agent did not turn up for our appointment. The solicitor replied late and incompletely to my questions.” She twice ...More
EJ Insight2022-12-05
古代哲學流派斯多葛主義（Stoicism）和法國文學理論家謝拉（René Girard）模仿理論近年流行普及， ...全文
Soft power – the sum total of state capacity, influence, and impact, that can be attributed to predominantly the cultural, ideological, and discursive might of the state, as manifested through its abi ...More
EJ Insight2022-12-02
Leaders of both autocracies and democracies alike put on the impression that their regimes are flourishing – and that their way of governing is best. In practice, setting aside the fact that most of t ...More
EJ Insight2022-12-02
... as coming to an end. But, while most major central banks are now reversing quantitative easing (QE) and raising interest rates, China may need to head in the opposite direction. Observers often forget ...More
EJ Insight2022-12-02
The Northern Metropolis vision was promulgated in the 2021 Policy Address, and the project entails huge investments. In addition to the various infrastructure investments revealed by the Government la ...More
EJ Insight2022-12-02
A diplomatic standoff between European countries over the price cap to set for Russia’s oil exports threatens to hobble efforts to limit the Kremlin’s resources to wage its war of aggression against U ...More
EJ Insight2022-12-01
