Passage of the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act by both houses of the US congress is a humiliating blow for China and a triumph for the Hong Kong protesters and their message to the global aud ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-28
Passage of the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightFrank Ching2019年11月28日
The social unrest gripping Hong Kong, now in its sixth month, worsened last week as violence reached new heights, universities were taken over by students, protests spread to the heart of the business ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-18
While China and the United States once again appear to be close to a trade agreement, the fact that it is a “first phase” accord makes it clear that intractable issues have been left for a second and, ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-14
While China and the United States once again appear to ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightFrank Ching2019年11月14日
As violent anti-China protests in Hong Kong continue, the Communist Party of China’s Central Committee, meeting last week in Beijing for the first time in 20 months, issued a communiqué in which it pl ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-05
Four months ago, the leaders of China and Japan met on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Osaka and agreed to normalize their relationship. President Xi Jinping accepted Premier Shinzo Abe’s invitati ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-31
Four months ago, the leaders of China and Japan met on ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightFrank Ching2019年10月31日
As Taiwan's January presidential election approaches, Beijing is stepping up its effort to undermine incumbent President Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and boost the opposition ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-21
China's intense anticorruption campaign has generated a flood of fugitives who have fled abroad and Beijing in turn has launched a global drive to seek their return, leading to the arrest of more than ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-15
This week marks the beginning of the fifth straight month of protests in Hong Kong. A million-person march on June 9 was focused on opposing the government’s extradition bill and that goal was finally ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-08
The People’s Republic of China celebrated the 70th anniversary of its founding this week with fireworks, a huge parade showing off its latest military hardware and a vast outpouring of facts and figur ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-03
The People's Republic of China celebrated the 70th anni ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightFrank Ching2019年10月03日
In the run-up to Taiwan's January presidential election, China is taking economic, political, military and diplomatic steps in an effort to prevent President Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-23
More than three decades ago when China set up a special committee to draft Hong Kong’s Basic Law, its attitude toward the business elite was unmistakable, as 12 of the 23 Hong Kong members that it pic ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-17
Twenty-two years ago, when Hong Kong became part of China, the former British colony’s relationship with Taiwan became part of China’s cross-straits relationship. Thus, when the pro-independence polit ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-09
Five years ago, in May 2014, President Xi Jinping took the United States aback when, at a regional conference held in Shanghai, he proposed the idea of “Asia for Asians” where security matters were co ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-26
As world attention focused on pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, India all of a sudden moved to strip the special region of Jammu and Kashmir of the autonomy guaranteed to it in India’s constitution ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-22
As world attention focused on pro-democracy protests in ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightFrank Ching2019年08月22日
For some time now, China has been blaming “black hands” working for “foreign forces” for the massive anti-extradition protests in Hong Kong, now in their third month. More recently, Chinese officials ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-12