The impact of the latest healthcare scandal in China, this time involving the sale of illegal vaccines, is spreading as officials acknowledge that more than two-thirds of the country's provinces are a ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-29
The visit of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi to the United States illustrates the seemingly schizophrenic relationship between the two countries. On one hand, clear progress was made on joint action ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-01
China has reacted mildly – to some extent, even positively – to the US-Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit hosted last week by US President Barack Obama at the Sunnylands estate in Californi ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-23
Four months after Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to the United Kingdom was hailed by both countries as heralding a new "golden era", the British government unexpectedly accused Beijing of commit ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-16
During the campaign leading up to Taiwan’s Jan. 16 elections, Tsai Ing-wen, leader of the Democratic Progressive Party, took part in singing the national anthem at public events, but her lips visibly ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-25
The consternation in Hong Kong over the case of five missing booksellers – especially the most recent incident involving Lee Bo, who is feared to have been kidnapped and smuggled into the Chinese main ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-18
At a time when Chinese capital and Chinese tourists are flooding into every corner of the world, the Chinese government is seeking the return of hundreds, possibly thousands, of former officials who h ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-12
China responded with a knee-jerk reaction to the Obama Administration's announcement of a US$1.83 billion arms sales package for Taiwan, summoning the charge d’affaires at the American embassy for a d ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-22
The two-day China-Africa summit meeting in Johannesburg last week marked another step in the decades-long process of tightening relations between the world’s soon-to-be-biggest economic power and the ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-08
After decades of priding itself on not having a single Chinese soldier on foreign soil (except for those serving with UN peacekeeping forces) and having no overseas military bases, China is somewhat a ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-01
Barack Obama, who has dubbed himself “America’s first Pacific president”, made his sixth trip to the region last week to attend meetings in Manila and Kuala Lumpur. But now that there is little more t ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-24
A single swallow, we are told, doesn’t make a summer. That certainly applies to the trilateral meeting in Seoul on Nov. 1 at which Japanese Premier Shinzo Abe met his counterparts, President Park Geun ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-17
A strong, vigorous handshake that lasted more than a minute marked the historic first meeting between the leader of the People’s Republic of China and the leader of Taiwan, which has been the home of ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-10
China suffered a double whammy in the South China Sea last week as the US navy carried out a freedom-of-navigation operation, sending a destroyer to within 12 nautical miles of artificial islands in t ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-02
It must have been a bittersweet moment for Xi Jinping, the head of the world’s biggest communist party, to be riding in a golden carriage seated next to Queen Elizabeth II -- the world’s second-longes ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-27
Fearing a disastrous outcome at presidential and legislative elections in January, Taiwan's ruling Kuomintang finally took the plunge and replaced its original presidential candidate, Hung Hsiu-chu, w ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-20
The agreement on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, reached after five years of often nail-biting sessions that ended inconclusively, marks a triumph for the United States, especially for President Barack ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-14
China showed in its Sept. 3 military parade that it wants to be viewed not just as an economic power but as a major military and diplomatic player as well. And, while it trumpeted its desire for peace ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-15
While China’s dazzling military parade last week can be understood on several levels, the underlying purpose of the entire show, in which 30 heads of state or government participated, was clear and st ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-08
