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
The China-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank hasn’t opened its doors for business yet, but already it has strained relations between the United States and its closest ally, the United Kingdom ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-17
Much attention has been focused on what Premier Li Keqiang had to say about slowing growth in the Chinese economy in his annual report to the National People’s Congress, China’s parliament, and about ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-10
Last weekend, Beijing ended its one-month rotating presidency of the United Nations Security Council. This was an opportunity for China to present an image of itself as a responsible world power, and ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-03
“China’s development will generate huge opportunities and benefits and hold lasting and infinite promise,” President Xi Jinping told business executives gathered in Beijing for the Asia-Pacific Econom ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-24
Over the last 35 years, China has gone through great changes. This period of change presented major challenges to the Communist Party’s ideology. Many challenges were dealt with through redefinition a ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-17
When Barack Obama was in Beijing in November for the APEC summit, he met with leaders of 11 other countries – Japan, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia, Peru, Chile a ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-10
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
