Just after the People's Liberation Army sent ballistic ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightFrank Ching2022年10月08日
Just after the People’s Liberation Army sent ballistic missiles flying over Taiwan and effectively blockaded the island’s ports in a ferocious show of force in the aftermath of a visit by Nancy Pelosi ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-06
When John Lee was sworn in as Chief Executive two months ago, he pledged to safeguard China’s “sovereignty, national security and development interests” as well as “to ensure prosperity and stability” ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-06
Less than a month after assuming office, Chief Executive John Lee faces a major stumbling block in his much ballyhooed campaign to promote Hong Kong in the international community by “telling a good H ...More
EJ Insight2022-08-02
Chinese leader Xi Jinping, in a dramatic gesture, traveled to Hong Kong June 30-July 1 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of its return to China in 1997 and its establishment as a special administrativ ...More
EJ Insight2022-07-04
Last month, when the Covid-19 death toll in the United States reached a million, China’s government and state media took delight in mocking and shaming America in its moment of national grief. A Chine ...More
EJ Insight2022-06-06
Last week, former Chief Secretary John Lee, the sole candidate in the election this coming Sunday [May 8] for Hong Kong’s Chief Executive where the voters are the roughly 1,500 members of a China-domi ...More
EJ Insight2022-05-04
Twenty-five years ago, at midnight on June 30, 1997, Britain handed over Hong Kong, its colony for 150 years, to China in return for a promise that the region would be given “a high degree of autonomy ...More
EJ Insight2022-04-06
However the war in Ukraine ends, Russia will be a loser and international pariah. And China, unless it stops sitting on its hands, will have lost a major opportunity to show itself as a world leader. ...More
EJ Insight2022-03-08
Is Hong Kong dying, again? In June 1995, two years before Britain handed Hong Kong over to China, Fortune magazine famously published a cover story boldly proclaiming “The Death of Hong Kong” writte ...More
EJ Insight2022-02-08
While continuing to insist that Hong Kong is an internal Chinese affair in which foreigners should not interfere, the Chinese government is using the recent legislative elections in the former British ...More
EJ Insight2022-01-03
In the three weeks since the virtual meeting between President Joe Biden of the United States and Chinese leader Xi Jinping, there has been a clear improvement in the relationship, with China now coop ...More
EJ Insight2021-12-07
President Joe Biden asserted in late October that the United States would defend Taiwan if it came under attack, a stance different from the “strategic ambiguity” that has characterized American polic ...More
EJ Insight2021-11-02
In October 2017, Chinese leader Xi Jinping delivered an hourslong address at a Communist party congress in which he made a key prediction: that China would move “closer to center stage” in the world. ...More
EJ Insight2021-10-07
In October 2017, Chinese leader Xi Jinping delivered an ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightFrank Ching2021年10月07日
The crisis in Afghanistan, which exploded with the sudd ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightFrank Ching2021年09月10日
The crisis in Afghanistan, which exploded with the sudden collapse of the Ashraf Ghani government, left the Taliban in control, creating consternation over the possibility that the country may once ag ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-09
Fifty years to the month after Henry Kissinger’s secret visit to China to end a generation of hostility between Washington and Beijing, another American official, Wendy Sherman, was in China, this tim ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-03
In a speech marking the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, its current leader, Xi Jinping, announced the realization of the party’s goal of “building a moderately prospe ...More
EJ Insight2021-07-05
Four decades ago, China entranced the world as its then paramount leader Deng Xiaoping opened up the country to foreign investors and focused on modernization. Part of his strategy was a blanket one-c ...More
EJ Insight2021-06-08
