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2025: Digital Platform Monopolies East and West

Posted on 04/23/2026 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Monopolies and near-monopolies in the data and social media fields have become a bigger issue in the USA as their effects become more apparent. Requiring sellers not to see less than on the dominant website as Amazon and Apple have … Continue reading →

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2025: PRC Scholars on Sino-US Trump 2.0 AI Rivalry

Posted on 02/28/2026 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Related on this translation blog China and AI: The New Phase of AI Rivalry Between China and the US in the Trump 2.0 Era 特朗普2.0时期中美人工智能博弈的新阶段 December 25, 2025 by Lu Chuanying and Cai Yue Lu Chuanying 鲁传颖 is a Special … Continue reading →

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2006: Overseas Chinese Scholars Critique the Restless Climate at China’s Universities

Posted on 02/16/2026 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

The thinking and political/economic systems that Chinese people share has changed with unsettling speed over the past generation or two. This is reflected in changes in China’s science and technology system. — a difficult process involving many dependencies between scientific, … Continue reading →

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2025: The Party Rescues China’s Bachelors: The Bride Price Crackdown

Posted on 10/07/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Bride prices in China have climbed rapidly over the past three decades. The sharp rise of incomes in better-off social layers (shehui jieceng 社会阶层 — they don’t like to say classes China which were abolished in the PRC under Chinese … Continue reading →

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2025: Involution Brings “Warring States” Competition to the PRC Domestic Coffee Market

Posted on 09/30/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

 The Chinese press is talking about a  Warring States-like situation in its domestic coffee retail market.  Like back when a decayed Zhou imperial China was challenged by a number of statelet upstarts that all the while pretending allegiance to Joe also … Continue reading →

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2025：PRC AI DeepSeek Discusses Involution — Fierce Competition Driving Some Chinese Companies to the Brink

Posted on 09/27/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Involution 内卷 neijuan!  I heard about that before meaning hopeless, constantly escalating competition to the point of rapidly diminishing returns that exhausted young people and them want to lie flat and tune out from impossible pressures. See 2021: A PRC … Continue reading →

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2024: Xi’s New Quality Productivity Innovation Builds China and Makes the World a Better Place

Posted on 06/19/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping has recently been discussing grand strategies for China’s way forward. While Xi Jinping Thought has Xi’s name attached, it is a corporate enterprise refined over the years through a process of constant development, … Continue reading →

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2022: Novelist Azabu Keiba on Tokyo, Youth, Rat Race

Posted on 03/13/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Interview with 30-something Japanese novelist Azabu Keiba 麻布競馬場 on Japanese youth, feelings of being worn out by hopeless competition, country vs. big city Tokyo. His 2022 book 『この部屋から東京タワーは永遠に見えない』麻布競馬場著（集英社） [“Tokyo Tower Can Never Be Seen From This Room”] relates the hallmarks … Continue reading →

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2023 NPC Lectures: #4 Xi on the People’s Congress System

Posted on 12/09/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

The topic of this lecture, fourth in a series of 2023 lectures delivered to the 170 members of the Standing Committee of China’s 3000-member strong unicameral national legislature the National People’s Congress (NPC), is the application of Xi Jinping Thought … Continue reading →

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1998: PLA Navy Captain on Resources and Maritime Security

Posted on 04/25/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Summary: Competition on the Pacific Ocean: Problems in Maritime Strategy for Modern China , an October 1998 book by Captain Wu Chunguang of the PLA Navy Political Work Research Institute argues that the greatest threat to China is not a … Continue reading →

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