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PRC Top Procuratorate: Fighting Profit-Driven Law Enforcement and Judicial Practices

Posted on 02/14/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

The PRC Supreme People’s Procuratorate (SPP) over the past year has been cracking down on local law enforcement and judicial practices aimed at harvesting money for local governments and individuals. Cash-starved local governments have increasingly been reaching out for potential … Continue reading →

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2023: LSE Keyu Jin on Critical Issues Confronting China

Posted on 01/11/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Here sharing the fine Twitter write up today from Arnaud Bertrand on London School of Economics Prof Keyu Jin’s talk at Harvard’s Fairbank Center along with a YouTube link to her full presentation. The YouTube link to Professor Keyu Jin’s … Continue reading →

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2002: Wired China: Many Hands on Many Switches

Posted on 08/22/2021 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Back in 2002, a half-year after my return from five years working in the science section of US Embassy Beijing, I wrote to the Congressional-Executive Commission on China to share with them my views on the Internet and the control … Continue reading →

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Major Change in PRC Political Operating System under Xi?

Posted on 07/04/2019 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

During my ten years in China (Beijing 1996 – 2001 and Chengdu 2007 – 2012) with some Washington-based China watching in between, I saw a steady decline, especially after Party Secretary Hu Jintao came to power, in what little openness … Continue reading →

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Why Don’t We Know Anything (or Not Much) About China?

Posted on 09/30/2018 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Good article in the March 2018 issue of Foreign Policy! Also reminded of this by a most graphic graphic shared by the always intriguing and hilarious fake PRC tweeter @RelevantOrgans. People do tend to notice opacity.  But it can take … Continue reading →

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