Less than two weeks after becoming prime minister on 26 September 2006, Shinzo Abe was on a plane bound for Beijing, breaking the tradition of Japanese leaders visiting Washington on their first overs ...More
EJ Insight2020-10-01
Less than two weeks after becoming prime minister on 26 ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightFrank Ching2020年09月30日
Although China and the European Union do more than a billion euros of business a day, the meeting in cyberspace between their leaders on September 14 showed just how far apart they are in political te ...More
EJ Insight2020-09-22
The ability to manipulate words and what they mean is a source of power in all societies, especially in China, with its long literary tradition. Under Chairman Mao Zedong, workers were in theory the m ...More
EJ Insight2020-09-17
The ability to manipulate words and what they mean is a ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightFrank Ching2020年09月17日
While the world was focused on the plight of Uighurs in Xinjiang, Beijing was moving quietly to further tighten its control over ethnic minorities in two other strategic areas: Tibet and Inner Mongoli ...More
EJ Insight2020-09-08
The approaching American presidential election, which President Donald Trump has called “the most important election in the history of our country,” sees China playing a disproportionate role, despite ...More
EJ Insight2020-09-03
The approaching American presidential election, which P ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightFrank Ching2020年09月03日
A series of Chinese officials, including the country’s top diplomat, have recently called on the United States for talks to halt the unraveling of the relationship and to pave the way to stable, mutua ...More
EJ Insight2020-08-25
For the last six months, the United States and China have been engaged in a steadily escalating war of nerves, with relations now at their worst since the Korean War of the 1950s. Many have likened th ...More
EJ Insight2020-08-20
For the last six months, the United States and China ha ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightFrank Ching2020年08月20日
When Chief Executive Carrie Lam made her explosive announcement that elections scheduled for September would be delayed for a year because of the rampaging coronavirus, few people in Hong Kong – quite ...More
EJ Insight2020-08-11
Beijing’s imposition of a far-reaching national security law a month ago is changing the character of Hong Kong, loosening its ties to the western world to which it has been moored while greatly enhan ...More
EJ Insight2020-08-06
Beijing's imposition of a far-reaching national securit ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightFrank Ching2020年08月06日
In this globalized world, one would think that Rudyard Kipling’s evocative line, “Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet,” is no longer relevant with the internet providing ro ...More
EJ Insight2020-07-28
The national security law is likely to be used to reduce the number of seats won by the pro-democracy opposition in Hong Kong’s legislative elections scheduled for September. After democrats swept the ...More
EJ Insight2020-07-23
The national security law is likely to be used to reduc ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightFrank Ching2020年07月23日
The first step was taken this past weekend towards investigating the origins of the coronavirus which, by July 12, had infected almost 13 million people around the globe with the loss of more than hal ...More
EJ Insight2020-07-14
The national security law adopted by China’s National People’s Congress Standing Committee in the morning of June 30 and promulgated in Hong Kong that night had an immediate effect, with localist grou ...More
EJ Insight2020-07-09
The National Security Law adopted by China's National P ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightFrank Ching2020年07月09日
