With the United States’ disastrous exit from Afghanistan, the parallels between the 2020s and the 1970s just keep growing. Has a sustained period of high inflation just become much more likely? Until ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-06
... adults between 20 to 44 years of age increased by 64% from 17 per 100,000 American adults in 1993 to 28 per 100,000 in 2015. Taiwan also reported similar statistics. In 2015, the proportion of young p ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-06
... w treaty. We may be witnessing an equivalent moment in our relationship to the environment. Last month, a diverse independent panel of international lawyers issued the draft text defining the crime of ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-03
... lation do we need? To answer that question, we first must appreciate the transformational nature of social media, which is arguably comparable to that of the printing press in fifteenth-century Europe ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-02
... dose). However less than 30 percent of people over 70 has been inoculated. Still high vaccination rate does not guarantee easing of travel curbs.Many, myself included, would have hoped the border wou ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-01
Four years ago, we argued that the rise of electric vehicles (EVs) would upend both the auto industry and the oil market. As with the rapid displacement of horses by motor vehicles in the United State ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-01
... overnment welfare and entitlement programs have a crowd ...全文
... ok. While we shouldn’t completely dismiss these signals, we are not overly concerned, for three reasons: First of all, real-time economic data need to be treated with caution. For one, these indicator ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-31
We live in an age of systemic gridlock, policy chaos, and sudden-shock failures. How is it possible that Afghan security forces – built and trained by the United States military at a cost of $83 billi ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-31
... es and answers questions from members of the public." I ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightBrian Wong2021年08月31日
... s “gap between rhetoric and action,” the International Energy Agency (IEA) warns, “needs to close if we are to have a fighting chance of reaching net zero by 2050 and limiting the rise in global tempe ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-30
... er superpowers, the Soviet Union and the United States and earned the name “graveyard of empires”. Is China about to make the same fatal mistake? Of the big powers, Beijing has been the most favourabl ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-30
CLP Holdings Limited (CLP) announced earlier that its wholly-owned subsidiary EnergyAustralia will build Australia’s first net zero emissions hydrogen and gas capable power plant, helping to provide a ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-30
... different weapons, including heavy machine guns, anti-aircraft guns and recoilless guns. That said, Toyota pickup trucks are arguably the most popular amongst other brands because of their reliability ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-27
Definition of a townhall (from the Cambridge English Dictionary): “a public meeting at which a politician or official speaks about his or her policies and answers questions from members of the public. ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-27
... of the powers that be… Nicole Kidman’s surprise visit ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightA Hongkonger2021年08月27日
... of the powers that be… Nicole Kidman’s surprise visit – and her exemption from quarantine – certainly counts amongst them. For those who have been less tuned to the latest developments in our wonderf ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-26
... hallenges we face. In particular, governments should focus on correcting and reducing the distortions currently burdening food and agricultural markets. If policymakers can improve how these markets f ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-26
... ive an answer. “The doctor saved his life,” he said. “We could pay him to fly back for the procedure or fly Kansas to where the doctor is.” Are the doctors emigrating? This is the nightmare of Hong Ko ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-26
