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2025: Think Tanker Xu Yongzhi on Potential Japanese Involvement in Taiwan ‘Contingency’

Posted on 11/16/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Links, material in brackets [ ] are added. See also: 2025: People’s Daily Commentary on Japanese PM Statement that Taiwan Straits Conflict Would be an Existential Threat to Japan, MOFA 11/14 Statement, Japanese Language Tweet Calls to Use Force in the … Continue reading →

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2025: PRC Cybersecurity Association Warns of Repeated US Cyber Attacks Against Universities, Defense Contractors

Posted on 08/24/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

An August 1, 2025 notice from the Cybersecurity Association of China 【中国网络空间安全协会】warned of attacks by US intelligence agencies on China. The Cyber Security Association of China (CSAC) is a national, non-profit industry association founded in 2016. CSAC is not a … Continue reading →

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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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2024: PRC Blogger: West Faces Rough World After 70 Years of Prosperity

Posted on 02/07/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

I saw this recommended on Wang Dan’s twitter feed. An intriguing Chinese perspective, stresses the minuses but not the pluses of immigration (especially as birth rates decline). Many of the minuses are more about nativist backlashes than the immigrants themselves. … Continue reading →

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2024：PRC Small Balloons Over Taiwan: Countermeasures; Will PLA Near Space Combat Command Emerge?

Posted on 02/03/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Two translations below: Liberty Times 【自由时报】 “The Chinese Communists’ 57 balloons harass Taiwan in January: Experts suggest getting “this kind of laser weapon” to counteract them.“ Taiwan Institute for National Defense and Security Research: “The PLA May Establish a “Near-Space … Continue reading →

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2023: Swedish Armed Forces’ “Lessons from the War in Ukraine”

Posted on 12/14/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Translations from Swedish today. I saw this Swedish Defense Force unclassified report on lessons learned thus far from the War in Ukraine mentioned on Lars Wilderäng’s twitter feed @Cornubot and on his blog Cornucopia: Eternal Growth in a Finite World. Lars Wilderäng … Continue reading →

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2022: Taiwan Chief of Staff’s “How Taiwan Can Win”

Posted on 01/18/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Visiting my wife’s family in Nantou County, Taiwan, I’ve noticed much favorable discussion of Admiral Lee Hsi-ming’s book 《臺灣的勝算》 “How Taiwan Can Win”. Apparently an English translation is in the works. Some links added (Google Translates of original Chinese language … Continue reading →

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2023: Taiwan’s Military Preparations — Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)

Posted on 01/08/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

With an eye to growing intimidation efforts from the Chinese Mainland, Taiwan is boosting its military capabilities. Taiwan recently announced that it is extending compulsory military service from three months to one year to allow for better training of its … Continue reading →

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2022: PRC Researcher on Next Generation U.S. Early Warning Satellites

Posted on 06/29/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

This Chinese article published in the PRC open journal Modern Defense Technology [ 现代防御技术], evaluates U.S. progress in developing next generation early warning satellites illustrates open source collection, provides an overview of military space high tech field and gives some indication … Continue reading →

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2022: PRC Defense: Starlink Countermeasures

Posted on 05/25/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

The article translated below from the PRC journal Modern Defense Technology “The Development Status of Starlink and Its Countermeasures” discusses countering a military threat — more precisely military threats enabled by much faster communications — and what capabilities China would … Continue reading →

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