Taiwan’s 23 million people may face a historic decision in the coming months as the island prepares for a fateful presidential election in which relations with mainland China will be the crucial issue ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-23
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, and Beijing will have much reason to celebrate. But, as the lifting of term limits for president last year under ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-16
Ever since the Hong Kong Policy Act was passed in 1992, the United States has been checking regularly to see if Beijing is keeping its promise to grant Hong Kong a high degree of autonomy under the po ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-08
In northwestern Beijing, amid universities, parks and museums, sits a striking structure, resembling a sundial – the China Millennium Monument, erected a little more than 20 years ago to welcome the a ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-04
In northwestern Beijing, amid universities, parks and m ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightFrank Ching2019年04月04日
The political atmosphere is heating up in the Taiwan Strait because of the convergence of developments in China, Taiwan and the United States. In China, President Xi Jinping is becoming visibly impati ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-25
Press conferences generate news because of what a prominent person has to say, particularly in response to journalists’ questions. In China, the questions themselves are revealing, since they are scre ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-19
For almost a year, Hong Kong’s MTR Corporation has been mired in scandal. Reports of shoddy work in the US$12.4 billion Shatin-to-Central Link project led to the setting up of a commission of inquiry, ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-12
The failure of the Feb. 27-28 Donald Trump-Kim Jong-un summit in Hanoi to produce an agreement on denuclearization was largely the result of insufficient preparation by both the United States and Nort ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-04
During the heyday of the Chinese empire, representatives of vassal states had to go through elaborate rituals, including the infamous kowtow procedure known as “three kneelings and nine prostrations” ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-26
On the second day of the new year, President Xi Jinping delivered a speech in which he called for the fulfillment of the “historic task” of reunifying Taiwan and the mainland, by force if necessary. D ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-21
On the second day of the new year, President Xi Jinping ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightFrank Ching2019年02月21日
Ever since Carrie Lam became Chief Executive of Hong Kong on July 1, 2017, she has had virtually absolute support from the Chinese government, including President Xi Jinping himself. This isn’t surpri ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-12
As China celebrates the arrival of the Year of the Pig, trade negotiators on both sides of the Pacific pause briefly before resuming talks, this time in Beijing, in an attempt to reach what President ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-04
In January 1979, the then 74-year-old Deng Xiaoping, survivor of repeated political purges to become China’s leader after the death of Mao Zedong, met in Beijing with American journalists to mark the ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-28
The Soviet Union, along with its status as a superpower, is no more, though Russia still has weapons capable of destroying the world many times over. That superpower mantle is now snugly wrapped aroun ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-24
The Soviet Union, along with its status as a superpower ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightFrank Ching2019年01月24日
In his New Year address, President Xi Jinping spoke proudly of China’s achievements in 2018, including the launch of the Chang’e-4 lunar probe, which successfully landed on the far side of the moon, a ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-14
Twenty-some years ago, the main topic of conversation for people in Hong Kong was what lay in the future, when the British colony was handed back to China after 156 years. Two decades later, the conve ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-07
For more than a thousand years, the Chinese have used h ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightFrank Ching2019年01月03日
