In September, when the new Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, visited the United States, China declared itself unworried. “India will not be a major player in America’s game of rebalancing the Asia ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-03
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan is reportedly planning a trip to the United States in the spring during which he will visit Pearl Harbor, the first visit by a post-war Japanese leader to the naval ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-27
Sixteen months ago, Hugo Swire, Minister of State for the UK's Foreign and Commonwealth Office, wrote an article calling for the people of Hong Kong to be given a genuine choice in the 2017 chief exec ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-20
Last Thursday, student leader Joshua Wong was at Hong Kong Commercial Radio to record a program when he ran into Chief Secretary Carrie Lam. The 18-year-old immediately reached into his schoolbag and ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-12
Early in 2013, the Philippine government initiated international arbitral proceedings against China over their maritime dispute in the South China Sea. Beijing announced that it would not take part, a ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-31
More than two years after Xi Jinping gained power as China’s leader, his anti-corruption campaign shows little sign of slowing down. Instead, it is now spreading its wings to other countries. It isn’t ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-23
The rout of the Nationalist Party, or Kuomintang, by the opposition Democratic Progressive Party in the Nov. 29 local elections changed Taiwan’s political landscape overnight, making the DPP candidate ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-16
Thirty years ago this month, Britain and China signed the Sino-British Joint Declaration on the Question of Hong Kong, under which London agreed to restore Hong Kong to China in 1997 and Beijing spell ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-08
A couple of weeks ago, IHS Jane’s, a leading British publishing company specializing in military topics, reported that China was reclaiming land at Fiery Cross Reef in the South China Sea and was tran ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-03
The frosty handshake between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on the margins of the APEC meeting in Beijing is providing an opportunity for the two countries to end ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-25
In the 1980s, when China’s paramount leader Deng Xiaoping introduced the concept of “one country, two systems”, people in many foreign countries were skeptical that it could be done. China proved them ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-18
The historic meeting between the leaders of China and Japan, hours before the APEC summit in Beijing, hopefully will lead to an easing of tensions between the two countries and end a period when the r ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-11
For someone whose public life is an open book, many people are still puzzled by China’s leader Xi Jinping, who became general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and chairman of the Central Milit ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-04
An increasingly self-confident China is now seeking to reshape the world through playing leadership roles in international organizations, such as the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum next week ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-27
China’s relationship with Russia has strengthened in the wake of the Ukraine crisis, despite Moscow’s clear violation of the Chinese principle of non-interference in other countries’ internal affairs. ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-20
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
