Tag Archives: border

2019: China’s Border Defense Policies Ancient and Present

Posted on 08/18/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

PRC border policy of implanting new villages adjacent to its international border described in the August 10, 2024 article China’s Great Wall of Villages reminds of similar practices two thousand years ago during the Han Dynasty. Ma Changquan is a … Continue reading →

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2008: Russians on Chinese/Russian Spy vs. Spy Wars, Lin Biao Crash

Posted on 04/18/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Between hegemonic Russia and peaceful China calmly rising as it planned the construction of a common home for all mankind and womankind, there used to be suspicions without limits. Now friendship without limits. Progress! Related on this translation blog: The … Continue reading →

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2023: Chinese Tourists Questioned, Visas Cancelled, PRC Protests, Tour Guide Boasts

Posted on 08/05/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Saw this on Twitter today: a story about a car with a Chinese tour guide and four Chinese tourists being stopped as they attempted to enter Russia on their visas. They were interrogated for four hours and their visas were … Continue reading →

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2022: Shanghai Reports on its Develop the West Counterpart Support

Posted on 05/27/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

The wealthier Chinese provinces are often paired with the less developed provinces and counties in poverty alleviation and disaster relief as was done for example after the 2008 For Sichuan earthquake. This is called counterpart assistance duìkǒu zhīyuán 对口支援. When … Continue reading →

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2023 RFI: China Changes China-Russia Border Place Names

Posted on 02/23/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Reminds me of the article circulating on some Chinese websites discussing and then gently opposing a view circulating in China “2022: Weibo: We Got Hong Kong Back, Why Not Vladivostok?” Opposing the excesses of nationalist sentiment in China is always difficult … Continue reading →

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Russian Perspective: PRC Foreign Policy 1949 – 1976

Posted on 02/20/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

[I have been having fun lately exploring machine translation. Here, although I have forgotten most of the first year Russian I learned 20 years ago, I find that using DeepL, the Russian search engine yandex.ru to find articles and online … Continue reading →

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Chinese Writer Liao Yiwu and “The Whole World is a Narrow Bridge”

Posted on 06/20/2017 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

In an online passage “The Whole World is a Narrow Bridge”  from Liao Yiwu’s book of Tiananmen June 4th interviews Bullets and Opium (in Chinese online and published in German but not yet in English),   Liao Yiwu mentions how in … Continue reading →

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