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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: Trade Diversion Boosts Demand for China-Russia Freight Links

Posted on 11/08/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Demand for freight links from China and Kazakhstan to Russia boosted as well by trade diverted from Russia to Central Asia that is then destined (what a surprise!) to be passed along to sanctioned Russia. Robin Brooks at Brookings posted … Continue reading →

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2009: What Do Africans Think of the Chinese? 非洲人眼里的中国人

Posted on 06/21/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

What Do Africans Think of the Chinese?  非洲人眼里的中国人   by the Chinese journalist LIU Zhirong 刘植荣 A few years ago I found this 2009 article posted and reposted on many Chinese websites including http://bbs.tiexue.net/post2_3586214_1.html (it is no longer there) Still interesting … Continue reading →

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Why Does Central Document #1 Still Stress Food Security?

Posted on 02/28/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Food security is always a concern in China, a 1.3 billion population country that still remembers the bad economic and agricultural policy-induced famine that killed upwards of 30 million Chinese during 1959-1961. In the mid 1990s, many Chinese experts shared … Continue reading →

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2006: PRC Defense Industry S&T Meeting Work Report

Posted on 12/07/2020 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Implement the Four Principles to Uphold, Accelerate Transformation and Upgrading, Push Forward the Steady Rapid Progress of the National Defense S&T Industry Zhang Yunchuan report at the 2006 National Defense S&T Industry Working Meeting Report (Excerpts) posted January 13, 2006 … Continue reading →

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