Tag Archives: corruption

2023 Liu Mengxiong: The Problem Lies in the Economy, the Root Cause in Politics

Posted on 02/26/2026 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Liu Mengxiong’s overview of economic and political problems confronting China translated below was discussed recently on the Chinese language side of the China Digital Times website. English-only readers (sino-illiterates?) may want to access Chinese language material on the CDT website … Continue reading →

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2026 China Digital Times 【CDT Weekly】Issue 257: The Spring Festival Gala Not Only Lacks Festive Spirit, It’s Lost Its Human Touch

Posted on 02/25/2026 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

The China Digital Times regularly carries a ‘hit parade’ of the latest articles erased by Chinese censors. Censorship in China is mostly post-publication — intimidating journalists and editors afterwards so that they be more self-disciplined in the future. And not … Continue reading →

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2026: PLA Daily on What the Purge Means

Posted on 02/04/2026 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Amidst the ongoing purges of top officers of the PLA what should be the attitude of PLA officers and soldiers. They are continually exhorted to be loyal to the Party 政治合格。The PLA is the creature of the Chinese Communist Party … Continue reading →

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2013: Dr. Wang Shuping on “What Happened to People who Spoke Out About HIV/AIDS in China”

Posted on 11/17/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

My old friend Dr. Wang Shuping shared this article with me in 2013. With December 1st AIDS Day coming up again, I now share it here. For more background on China’s AIDS problems and it cover-up during the 1990s and … Continue reading →

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2025: Hunan Xiangya Hospital Whistleblower Murder Case Exposed, Ongoing Suppression by Censors — ChatGPT Search Tool Example

Posted on 06/16/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Here is a presentation, through ChatGPT4o search results in Chinese and English, of the dramatic ongoing 2024 Luo Shiyu 罗帅宇 Hunan Xiangya Second Hospital 中南大学湘雅二医院 whistleblower murder case (the authorities say it was suicide, there is some evidence to the … Continue reading →

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2025: A Chinese Perspective on the Extraordinary Corruption of the Trump Regime

Posted on 06/05/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Observations on US corruption from China’s Fudan University’s US-China Friendship and Mutual Trust Cooperation Program. The “Program to Promote China-U.S. Friendship, Trust and Cooperation” is an academic initiative jointly launched by the Fudan Development Institute (FDDI) at Fudan University and … Continue reading →

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2025: Party Journal — Xi Jinping on Party Member Conduct

Posted on 05/08/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Reading the statements of China’s leader Xi Jinping in the Chinese Communist Party’s ideological journal Qiushi reminds me of reading and ancient text together with the explanation of each sentence or longer passage by learned commentators. A Sharp Ideological Weapon … Continue reading →

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2025: 16K Violations of Central Eight-Point Guidelines Were Investigated China-wide in January

Posted on 05/08/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Just one month after Xi Jinping became General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party in November 2012 the Politburo approved the bureaucratism and corruption-fighting “Eight Provisions on Improving Work Style and Maintaining Close Ties with the Masses.” As with other … Continue reading →

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2025: Chen Yunfei — “China’s Prison Labor System Must Be Urgently Reformed”

Posted on 04/26/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Chen Yunfei (August 13, 1967 – ) is a human rights activist from Sichuan Province. He graduated from Beijing Agricultural University in the early 1990s and was a participant in the 1989 pro-democracy movement. On the 18th anniversary of the … Continue reading →

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2025: Exploring Little Red Book — RedNote/Xiao Hongshu

Posted on 01/18/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

I signed up for Little Red Book 小红书 (as in Mao’s Little Red Book) aka Red Note. While I remember the Red Restaurant craze in Beijing of the late 1990s with waiters in Red Guard uniforms serving Maio’s favorite dishes … Continue reading →

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