Pyongyang's failed missile test on Sunday provides an opportunity for the United States to press for more stringent sanctions and for China to demonstrate its willingness to curb Pyongyang's nuclear a ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-18
Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s two-day summit meeting with Donald Trump, overshadowed by the US attack on Syria, gave each president the chance to take the measure of the other and, apparently, each like ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-10
The meeting between Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, was announced barely a week before it was to be held, suggesting difficult problems ahead. Almost simultaneously, Trump tweete ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-03
As expected, Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor triumphed in Sunday’s election, winning 777 votes from the 1,194-member Election Committee to become Hong Kong’s next chief executive. She will be the first wom ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-27
In October 1939, when World War II was just beginning, Winston Churchill, in a radio broadcast, described Russia as "a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma". Today, the same can be said of N ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-24
Beijing is worried that the front-runner in the Hong Kong chief executive election, Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, may face difficulties in governing if she ends up with more votes but remains significan ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-16
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
