At his inauguration on Jan. 20, US President Donald Trump delivered an inward-looking speech in which he promised to “make America great again”, without any reference to its friends and allies oversea ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-06
The close of nominations this week moves the Hong Kong chief executive election campaign into its final and most crucial phase. Hong Kong is fortunate to have effective individuals competing for the t ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-27
The telephone conversation between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping on Feb. 9 moved the two countries back from the edge of a precipice. Trump had announced that he might rej ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-20
These are dark days for Hong Kong. Its freedom index has been further downgraded by Washington-based Freedom House to 61 points out of 100, continuing the downward spiral of recent years – a result of ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-13
In the confusing environment generated by US President Donald Trump, in which he has criticized his allies more than America's opponents, the trip by Defense Secretary James M. Mattis to Seoul and Tok ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-06
Three days before Donald Trump’s inauguration, when he launched the United States on a protectionist course, China’s leader Xi Jinping gave a keynote address at the World Economic Forum in Davos where ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-01
Donald J. Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20 as the 45th US president was a defining moment in American history, as the United States turned inward, discarding the mantle of leadership that it had assume ...More
EJ Insight2017-01-23
Rex Tillerson, picked by US President-elect Donald Trump to be secretary of state, stirred up a hornet’s nest when he condemned Chinese actions in the South China Sea, comparing the construction of ar ...More
EJ Insight2017-01-16
Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen arrived in Honduras on Sunday for a closely watched four-nation Central American visit but, in China at least, there was much more interest in her stopovers in the Unit ...More
EJ Insight2017-01-09
Twenty years ago, Hong Kong was handed over to China by Britain, its colonial master for 156 years. The decision was made by China’s diminutive but doughty leader Deng Xiaoping and the reputedly unben ...More
EJ Insight2017-01-03
As 2016 draws to a close, China’s economic, political and military posture is higher than ever. It has challenged the United States in the South China Sea by seizing an unmanned underwater vehicle bef ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-28
During the American presidential campaign, Donald Trump didn’t disguise his admiration for the Russian leader, Vladimir Putin, and now, as president-elect, Trump has nominated Rex Tillerson, ExxonMobi ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-19
Despite the uproar in the United States over President-elect Donald Trump’s precedent-shattering Dec. 2 phone call with Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen, the Chinese government has been restrained. On ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-12
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
