The ordination last week of two Chinese bishops, Joseph Tang Yuange in Sichuan province and John Baptist Wang Xiaoxun in Shanxi province, both approved by the Vatican, appears to confirm reports that ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-06
Last week, President-elect Donald Trump confirmed his intention to withdraw the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership “from day one” of his administration. In a clip posted on YouTube, he c ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-28
This month marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, who is revered throughout the Chinese-speaking world as the father of modern China. Stamps in his honor were issued in mainland ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-21
The surprise election of Donald Trump has left many people uncertain what he will be like as the 45th president of the United States. His victory speech was a pleasant contrast from his tone on the ca ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-15
China’s chief official newspaper, the People’s Daily, is gloating over the discomfort Washington finds itself in after Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte visited China and publicly said that he was ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-07
Chinese leader Xi Jinping has been given an important new title that has been unused for the past 14 years in an elevation of his status so that he is now clearly on a higher level than that occupied ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-31
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s four-day visit to China was packed with drama, including his hyperbolic assertion that he was separating from the United States and that, from now on, “there are ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-25
Last Tuesday, the British government issued its long-awaited six-monthly report on Hong Kong – something it has done regularly since the handover of Hong Kong to China in 1997, and which the UK govern ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-18
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen refused to bow to Beijing’s pressure when she delivered her first National Day speech Oct. 10 but she urged China to value the positive results of cross-strait exchanges ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-12
Last month, US President Barack Obama was in Hangzhou for a G-20 meeting and, while there, held what is likely to be his last substantive bilateral talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping. The two men ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-03
This has been a good month for China in its efforts to seize fugitives on the run, some of whom allegedly fled the country with large amounts of illicit funds. Beijing is now taking concrete steps to ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-26
After a clean sweep of the Olympics table tennis stakes in Rio, winning all four gold medals in the men’s and women’s singles and the men’s and women’s team events in table tennis, China is moving for ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-19
Reverberations from last week’s election continue to be felt as the former British colony enters a new historical phase with a changed political landscape. Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying extended an ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-12
A record turnout, an increasingly politicized electorate (thanks to the 2014 Umbrella Movement) and last-minute strategy changes by pan-democrats have enabled the opposition to thwart hopes of Chief E ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-08
Friday, Sept. 9, marks the 40th anniversary of the death of Mao Zedong, who led the communist revolution to victory in 1949 and, after that, created turmoil in the country through one political moveme ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-29
Of late, discussion of Hong Kong’s possible independence from China has been in the air, a cause no serious politician has espoused since the former British colony returned to Chinese sovereignty in 1 ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-23
More than a month after the arbitral tribunal set up under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea decided in favor of the Philippines in its arbitration case against China on disputes in ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-15
In America, Hillary Clinton is calling for the shattering of the highest and hardest glass ceiling of them all by electing a woman president of the United States. In Britain, Theresa May was catapulte ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-09
Last week, two Hong Kong journalists were sentenced to prison in China. The similarity of their case to that of the five disappearing/reappearing booksellers grabbed public attention since these two m ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-02
Two weeks after the arbitral tribunal of the United Nations Convention of the Law of the Sea issued its award to the Philippines, China continues to seek to undermine the legitimacy of the tribunal, m ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-26
