Four years ago, Wang Yi, China’s foreign minister, held a joint news conference with his Canadian counterpart, Stéphane Dion, in Ottawa when a Canadian reporter asked Dion about human rights in China, ...More
EJ Insight2020-06-30
On the surface, the low-profile meeting between the top ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightFrank Ching2020年06月26日
On the surface, the low-profile meeting between the top diplomats of China and the United States in Hawaii last week was notable mostly for its being held, showing that despite bilateral relations bei ...More
EJ Insight2020-06-25
For the second time in 10 months, the Hong Kong government is trying to salvage its tattered reputation by seeking the help of public relations consultants. But the timing, coming as it does right aft ...More
EJ Insight2020-06-16
A year ago this week, an unusual relationship started to develop between Hong Kong, a former British colony now a Chinese special region, and Taiwan, a democracy with a highly developed economy. The t ...More
EJ Insight2020-06-11
A year ago this week, an unusual relationship started t ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightFrank Ching2020年06月11日
Hong Kong, which prospered for decades as the gateway between China and the West, acts today as the common punching bag for both China and the United States as each focuses on different targets in the ...More
EJ Insight2020-06-02
China is significantly tightening its grip on Hong Kong ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightFrank Ching2020年05月29日
China is significantly tightening its grip on Hong Kong with the announcement that its parliament, the National People’s Congress, will draft national security legislation that is to come into effect ...More
EJ Insight2020-05-28
Was Japan’s invasion of China 80-some years ago a good thing? Sounds like a silly question to ask and yet it was posed in the Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education examination last week, sparking a ...More
EJ Insight2020-05-19
China’s apparent willingness to cooperate with the World Health Organization in an open investigation into the origin of the Covid-19 virus, asserted repeatedly last week by its foreign ministry, is a ...More
EJ Insight2020-05-12
Voices increasingly are being raised calling for China to be held accountable for the coronavirus pandemic that is ravaging the world with three and a half million people infected so far and close to ...More
EJ Insight2020-05-04
Hong Kong’s major cabinet reshuffle last week in anticipation of a post-pandemic economic restart underlines several political realities including, first and foremost, Beijing’s continuing support for ...More
EJ Insight2020-04-30
Hong Kong's major cabinet reshuffle last week in antici ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightFrank Ching2020年04月30日
Hong Kong’s promised “high degree of autonomy” shrank visibly over a tumultuous weekend as Beijing’s representative office claimed it was not subject to the Basic Law’s stricture on noninterference in ...More
EJ Insight2020-04-20
In recent weeks, China’s state media has been packed with reports of Beijing’s humanitarian spirit, its willingness to share its experience in dealing with the coronavirus epidemic and its dispatch of ...More
EJ Insight2020-04-16
In recent weeks, China's state media has been packed wi ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightFrank Ching2020年04月16日
A tentative truce between Washington and Beijing to work together on the coronavirus pandemic, agreed to by the two countries’ leaders in a telephone call last month, has paved the way for the flow of ...More
EJ Insight2020-04-06
An hour-long telephone conversation between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping has brought to a halt – at least for the time being – a dangerous downward spiral in bilateral re ...More
EJ Insight2020-04-02
An hour-long telephone conversation between US Presiden ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightFrank Ching2020年04月02日
