EJ Insight

1 week ago | ejinsight.com | Mark O'Neill |Kevin Ng |Brian Wong

President Xi Jinping will be guest of honour at the giant May 9 military parade in Moscow to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two in Europe. He will see soldiers from the People’s Liberation Army, North Korea and Vietnam march with those from Russia, along with tanks, missiles and other military hardware. He may meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. He may also see Ukrainian suicide drones attack the parade. On April 30, President Volodymyr Zelensky threatened an attack.

2 weeks ago | ejinsight.com | Mark O'Neill |Kevin Ng |Brian Wong

October 29, 1929 was “Black Tuesday”, the day the New York Stock Market crashed. On June 17, 1930, U.S. President Herbert Hoover passed the Hawley-Smoot Act, imposing tariffs on 20,000 imported goods. These two events helped to set off the Great Depression of the 1930s that devastated the U.S. and Europe, and created the conditions for World War Two.

3 weeks ago | ejinsight.com | Mark O'Neill |Kevin Ng |Brian Wong

“I export 80 per cent of my output to the United States. What am I going to do?” Liang Lin manages a shoe factory in Foshan. “I cannot afford to pay my workers, so I have let most of them go home.”Across the world, in Westport on the west coast of Ireland, the 1,500 workers in an American firm that produces the world’s entire supply of Botox are also full of fear and anxiety. President Donald Trump has demanded that the U.S. pharmaceutical industry move their plants back home.

3 weeks ago | ejinsight.com | Mark O'Neill |Kevin Ng |Brian Wong

Founded in 1962, The Australian Ballet is a major international ballet company and has 79 dancers in total. It has toured China eight times already, the last tour was in 2015, but it still has not toured Hong Kong yet. Based in Melbourne, The Australian Ballet is the resident ballet company of the Arts Centre Melbourne as well as the Sydney Opera House. Opened by Queen Elizabeth in 1973, the Sydney Opera House is a masterpiece of 20th century architecture.

4 weeks ago | ejinsight.com | Mark O'Neill |Kevin Ng |Brian Wong

The Western world, including half of the population in the United States, are in a state of shock and disbelief at President Donald Trump, who took office just two months ago. He is signing presidential orders at a rate not seen since Franklin Roosevelt, who signed 3,721 during his 12-year term from 1933 to 1945. He fought the Great Depression and the Axis Powers in World War Two. To justify his orders, Trump has also declared a national emergency, even though none exists.