Last week, Barack Obama visited Kenya, his father’s birthplace, for the first time since becoming US president in 2009. Also on his itinerary was Ethiopia. It was the first time a serving American pre ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-04
Two and a half years after the Philippines first sought international arbitration in its disputes with China over the South China Sea, the first hearings were finally held in The Hague this month by t ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-27
The historic agreement reached by the world’s major powers and Iran on that country’s nuclear program was the biggest diplomatic achievement of US President Barack Obama's administration in six years. ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-21
Since early this year, Beijing has been capitalizing on the fact that 2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II and has repeatedly sought to embarrass Japan by reminding the world of ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-14
China’s new national security law, enacted last week by the National People’s Congress, the country’s parliament, is worrying on several levels, both because of what it says and because of what is lef ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-07
As expected, the Hong Kong government’s electoral reform package, which had been the focus of heated debate, failed to pass in the Legislative Council, thus blocking Beijing’s formula for “one man, on ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-23
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 Insight2015-06-16
That old question, what happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object, received a new answer on June 4 when tens of thousands of people in Hong Kong poured into Victoria Park for the 26 ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-09
Over the last two weeks, China and the United States moved dangerously close to the brink of war for the first time in almost two decades, but at the annual security forum in Singapore, the two sides ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-02
The Jeju Forum for Peace and Prosperity, held annually on the South Korean island of Jeju, dedicates itself to ideas such as diversity and sustainability. This year, the forum has the theme of buildin ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-26
Generation gaps always create all sorts of problems, but not when it comes to core values such as press freedom. A day after news broke that the South China Morning Post was ditching four well-respect ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-21
Sino-American relations are poised to worsen despite another summit meeting between the two leaders being planned for September, President Xi Jinping having accepted President Barack Obama’s invitatio ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-19
With barely eight months to go before Taiwan holds its next general election, at which both a new president and the entire parliament will be chosen, there was a lot hanging in the balance as the new ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-11
Last week, on the eve of an annual ASEAN summit meeting, Beijing warned the 10-nation grouping to “refrain from entangling itself” in rows with China, which risked “win-win cooperation” with the emerg ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-05
The Hong Kong government's political reform package, unveiled last week, contained few surprises. But there are some positive features. For one thing, the establishment of a low threshold for those wh ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-27
For many years, as China grew stronger and more influential, the United States has been pressuring it to assume more global responsibilities. Ten years ago, a senior American official, Robert Zoellick ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-21
Beijing must be feeling the pressure from the United States to stop its campaign of turning tiny reefs that it controls in the South China Sea into artificial islands capable of accommodating military ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-14
In November 2012, two weeks after becoming leader of the Communist Party, Xi Jinping visited the National Museum in Tiananmen Square. There, after viewing a grand exhibition called “The Road to Reviv ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-09
While still savoring its triumph over the United States in the launching of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, China is pushing ahead with another initiative that President Xi Jinping introduce ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-31
The United States was opposed to the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank ostensibly out of concern that it would adopt poor governance standards. But Washington’s real fear was that China ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-24
