Just as China and the United States are preparing for another Xi Jinping-Barack Obama summit next month, when the American president is scheduled to visit Beijing for the annual APEC leaders meeting, ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-14
“I’m a very modest man,” Narendra Modi, who as a young man sold tea by the railroad but who became India’s prime minister in May, told 18,500 cheering fans in New York’s Madison Square Garden last wee ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-07
China’s Communist Party has announced that a plenary session of its Central Committee will meet next month and the focus will be on the rule of law. While no one expects the party to allow a fully ind ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-23
Interracial marriage has historically been a contentious issue in many parts of the world and, while legal constraints may have been lifted, it continues to be controversial in many societies. In the ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-15
China is warning Britain in no uncertain terms not to stick its nose into Hong Kong affairs, despite the fact that the two countries co-signed the Sino-British Joint Declaration in 1984 and registered ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-10
As expected, the Chinese government on Sunday adopted a tough stance on Hong Kong, with the National People’s Congress Standing Committee issuing a decision that designates a Beijing-controlled body a ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-02
The 110th anniversary of the birth of Deng Xiaoping on Aug. 22 has brought forth a flood of articles and speeches on the late reformer, including a 48-part miniseries on his launching of economic refo ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-26
Spurred by China’s economic success in Africa, the United States this month held its first summit with the leaders of the continent. Presidents and prime ministers streamed into Washington for three ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-19
The International Monetary Fund (IMF), in its 2014 assessment of the Chinese economy, has advised the country to adopt lower growth targets and to put more emphasis on enacting reforms made public las ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-12
In a landmark judgment, a US appellate court has ruled as unconstitutional a decision by an American intergovernmental agency and President Barack Obama to block a Chinese company from owning some win ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-05
Two years ago, Hong Kong’s market regulator, the Securities and Futures Commission, took accounting firm Ernst & Young to court to force it to reveal information on a Chinese utility company that ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-29
Almost exactly 70 years after the signing of the Bretton Woods agreement, five major emerging economies, known collectively as BRICS, have created new institutions that would initially supplement and ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-22
The political track of the United States-China strategic and economic dialogue held last week in Beijing was beset by bickering, such as those over China’s maritime disputes and charges and countercha ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-14
While China seems to be an increasingly confident actor on the world stage, within the country, there is a serious lack of confidence in the government, with those who have thrived within the system e ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-08
Four years ago, China was crowned the world’s second largest economy, having overtaken Japan. Three months ago, the World Bank said that in purchasing power parity terms, China would become number one ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-30
Five years after the global climate change summit in Copenhagen, when the United States and China failed to reach a binding agreement, the situation has improved though much remains to be done if the ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-24
Last month’s US$400 billion, 30-year deal on natural gas between China and Russia, the biggest such deal ever, has implications beyond energy resources and bilateral relations. For one thing, it reaff ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-18
Last autumn, half a year after assuming office as China’s president, Xi Jinping invoked the ancient Silk Road of the Han dynasty 2,000 years ago and called for the forging of contemporary trading rout ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-10
The decision by the United States to indict five officers of the Chinese military on May 19 for commercial cyber-espionage is unprecedented and appears to stem from political rather than economic reas ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-03
The huge China-Russia deal on natural gas, which is being hailed as a milestone in the development of relations between the two countries, is likely in the long run to be positive for East Asia and fo ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-27
