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2025: PRC Media on 50th Anniversary of EU-PRC Relations

PRC Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Lin Jian on May 6th EU-PRC Relations 50th Anniversary: 2025年5月6日外交部发言人林剑主持例行记者会 CCTV Reporter: Today marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the European Union. How do you evaluate the … Continue reading

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2025 Revision: Chinese Language Study and Translation Tools

Intermediate and advanced professional learners of Chinese at some point may want to look for Chinese-language materials in their areas of interest. Large Language Model AIs have greatly improved the quality of machine translation recently. An example is the ChatGPT4o … Continue reading

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2023: A Russian Perspective on China-Russia Relations

Sampling domestic opinion pieces in foreign language press is interesting since you get an internal perspective rather than the foreign propaganda bias in pieces intended for a foreign audience. Recent improvements in machine translation — the DeepL Chrome browser plugin/extension, … Continue reading

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2020: Chinese on US vs. PRC Economy, Science, Education, Outlook for Bilateral Relations

Today I came across this set of three articles comparing the US and China in various dimensions and considering the outlook for bilateral relations. These three articles are translated below. I did a quick translation using DeepL and then reviewed … Continue reading

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2022: PRC-Argentina Strategic Partnership

An example of a declaration from a meeting with a country with which China has a strategic parnership, one of the several categories of China’s bilateral relationships. For more detail, see English below of the report on the Argentine-Chinese agreement … Continue reading

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Norway’s relationship with China Over 70 Years: Small State Idealism and Realism in the Face of a Great Power

I just ran across and excellent history and analysis of Norway – China bilateral relations by Jo Inge Bekkevold in the open accesss journal Internasjonal Politik — SKANDINAVISK TIDSSKRIFT FOR INTERNASJONALE STUDIER [International Poltiics: Scandanavian Journal for International Studies]. There … Continue reading

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China’s Huayuquan 话语权 — Does it mean ‘China’s Right to Speak’ or ‘the Right to Control Discourse About China’

China’s huayuquan is sometimes translated as China’s right to speak. When I read an article about it in a 2009 article in the Communist Party’s ideological journal Qiushi I got the impression that huayuquan meant China should have the dominant … Continue reading

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