Now that the debate over article 23 is over, with the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance having come into effect on March 23, it may be appropriate to look at some of the less discussed issues r ...More
EJ Insight2024-03-27
When Lai Ching-te of the Democratic Progressive Party w ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightFrank Ching2024年02月09日
When Lai Ching-te of the Democratic Progressive Party won Taiwan’s presidential election on Jan. 13, ensuring his party’s continued rule for an unprecedented third term, Beijing issued a statement ass ...More
EJ Insight2024-02-06
Eighteen months ago, President Xi Jinping was in Hong Kong to preside at the inaugural ceremony of a new Chief Executive, John Lee, and his team. Mr. Lee had spent nearly his entire career in police a ...More
EJ Insight2024-01-10
Expectations were low for the meeting between American president Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, held Nov. 15 in San Francisco. But since then, there has been a lowering of tension ...More
EJ Insight2023-12-05
After months of intense diplomacy, the White House press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, announced Oct. 31 that President Joe Biden will meet with President Xi Jinping of China in November, when the Ch ...More
EJ Insight2023-11-07
From one standpoint, Taiwan, an island 2,000 kilometers off the China coast, is insignificant, recognized as a sovereign state by a mere 12 countries. Most of the 193 member states of the United Natio ...More
EJ Insight2023-10-02
Last March, as Chinese President Xi Jinping was finishing a state visit to Russia, he bid an emotional farewell to his host, President Vladimir Putin. “Right now there are changes the likes of which w ...More
EJ Insight2023-09-05
On July 1, Chief Executive John Lee, marking the 26th anniversary of the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region after the return of Hong Kong to China by Britain, asserted that ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-07
Two weeks after U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken traveled to Beijing for intensive talks June 18-19 to stop the dangerous downward spiral of the U.S.-China relationship, the first fruits of the ...More
EJ Insight2023-07-06
Three years after China imposed a wide-ranging national security law on Hong Kong, the city looks like it has returned to normality, with its crammed malls and restaurants. The riots of 2019 are unlik ...More
EJ Insight2023-06-06
The hour-long phone call between Xi Jinping and Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s wartime president, followed by Beijing’s appointment of a senior diplomat to be dispatched to Ukraine and other countries ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-02
If imitation is the highest form of flattery, the United States should feel very flattered indeed as China has been learning from Washington for decades, including how to act (or not act) like the wor ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-04
China has wrapped the cloak of neutrality around itself, saying that it wants peace talks leading to a political settlement in Ukraine. Mao Ning, a Chinese spokesperson, said: “China’s position on the ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-07
A little more than a month ago, Hong Kong faced a major political crisis. Hours after the Court of Final Appeal rejected the government’s latest attempt to block former newspaper magnate Jimmy Lai – n ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-10
Ever since he became Chief Executive in July, John Lee has made clear his priorities: revive the economy, end Covid restrictions responsible for cutting off Hong Kong’s links with the rest of the worl ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-04
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
While Chinese leader Xi Jinping claims to be constructing a “great modern socialist country,” the Communist Party’s recent 20th congress saw China regress in significant areas, including excluding wom ...More
EJ Insight2022-11-08
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
