China’s National Supervisory Commission team investigating Wuhan doctor Li Wenliang, whose death on Feb. 6 spurred an outpouring of grief and anger, has made a rare admission of “improper” police inst ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-23
Just as Beijing is basking in its success in containing the coronavirus outbreak, sentiment against the mainland has worsened in Taiwan amid China's insistence that the island is part of its territory ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-19
Just as Beijing is basking in its success in containing ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightFrank Ching2020年03月19日
The defeat of China’s candidate for director-general of a key United Nations specialized agency – the World Intellectual Property Organization – was a triumph for Singapore, with Daren Tang becoming t ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-09
When President Xi Jinping was first informed of the looming threat posed by the emerging new coronavirus in Wuhan, probably towards the end of 2019, one of his chief concerns was that China would be c ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-02
Generations of journalism students have been told that if a plane crashes, it's news. If it doesn’t crash, it's not news. Hence, news tends to be bad news. It isn’t surprising, therefore, that in repo ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-25
Last month, Chief Executive Carrie Lam led a large delegation to the World Economic Forum in Davos in an attempt to relaunch Hong Kong, where the economy had slipped into recession after months of vio ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-17
The death of a Wuhan doctor who was reprimanded for sounding the alarm last December over a looming health threat has created a firestorm, prompting the Chinese government to make a quick move to cont ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-10
A week after it decided not to declare the coronavirus epidemic in China a public health emergency of international concern, the World Health Organization’s emergency committee met again on Jan. 30 an ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-03
China’s decision to lock down the central city of Wuhan – with more people than London or New York – in a dramatic attempt to halt the spread of the deadly new coronavirus now rampaging across the cou ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-29
In the 1970s, with Britain’s 99-year lease over most of Hong Kong due to expire in 1997, London worried about the colony’s future as investment was bound to dwindle over time unless an accord was reac ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-23
In the 1970s, with Britain's 99-year lease over most of ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightFrank Ching2020年01月23日
The election last Saturday, in which Tsai Ing-wen won a second term as president, shows democracy maturing in Taiwan, which only started direct presidential elections in 1996. Political power has now ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-14
Hong Kong marked the beginning of the 2020s with a huge anti-government march that organizers said was bigger than the million-person march of June 9 last year. The event began peacefully and ended in ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-07
Dear Mr. Xi, As a new decade dawns, it may be fitting to reflect upon the events of 2019 in Hong Kong and how to ensure, as you have said, that "one country, two systems" will be "fully applied ... wi ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-30
Zhou Enlai, premier of the People’s Republic of China from 1949 until his death in 1976, used to say: "We Chinese mean what we say.” China’s word was its bond. This year, the People’s Republic of Chin ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-27
Zhou Enlai, premier of the People’s Republic of China f ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightFrank Ching2019年12月27日
President Donald Trump, with his fondness for superlatives, hailed the first-phase US-China trade agreement as "historic," "an amazing deal" and one in which China would make "massive purchases" from ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-16
Evidently stung by the passage of the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act by the United States, the Hong Kong government has made a multi-barreled response: denied that human rights have been ero ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-09
After a peaceful two-week hiatus during which Hong Kong held District Council elections that saw pro-democracy candidates win a stunning victory by capturing 87 percent of the seats and 17 of the 18 c ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-02
