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
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
