Tag Archives: Korea

2024: Five Spies Against China Working for Korea, Japan and Taiwan

Posted on 06/05/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Related: From a Russian perspective: The Five Spies Hidden in Our Country’s Leadership: Both in Military and Political Circles, Who Are They? 潜伏在我国领导层的5个间谍，军界政界都有，分别都是谁？ By: Qingshan Guren January 4, 2024 The word “spy” first brings to mind disloyalty and betrayal. In … Continue reading →

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2018: Japanese blog on Buddhism and Temple Visits

Posted on 03/30/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

As I brush up on my Japanese I came across these blog entries from the Yasuda Prayer Bead Shop [Japanese language page 安田念珠店] written a few years ago. I used DeepL to do a translation, fiddled and corrected it very … Continue reading →

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2023: Argentina – China, Et Al : Illegal Fishing

Posted on 03/24/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Illegal fishing by many foreign fishing boats, mostly from China, but also from several other countries including Korea, Taiwan, and Spain, have become recently become a more serious problem for Argentina. Argentina’s claimed EEZ includes the Islas Malvinas/Falkland Islands. Translations … 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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Russian Perspective: PRC Foreign Policy 1949 – 1976

Posted on 02/20/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

[I have been having fun lately exploring machine translation. Here, although I have forgotten most of the first year Russian I learned 20 years ago, I find that using DeepL, the Russian search engine yandex.ru to find articles and online … Continue reading →

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1970s: Chinese Infiltrators and Counterintelligence in the Soviet Far East

Posted on 02/08/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

This chapter thirteen from Yuri Ufimtsev’s book Сквозь бамбуковой занавес. КГБ в Китае [The KGB in the PRC. Through the Bamboo Curtain] from Soviet counter-intelligence aimed at suspected Chinese infiltrators in the Soviet Far East from the 1960s to the … Continue reading →

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2022: A Wolf Warrior Refrain: Friends Get Wine, Wolves Faced with a Gun

Posted on 06/26/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

 When friends come, there is wine; when wolves come, there are met with a hunting rifle. 朋友来了有美酒，豺狼来了是猎枪 Péngyǒu láile yǒu měijiǔ, cháiláng láile shì lièqiāng A wolf warrior refrain: the PRC ambassador to the ROK Xing Haiming used this phrase … Continue reading →

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2021: Cao Xin: Does China’s Diplomacy Need a Big Adjustment?

Posted on 06/30/2021 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

by Cao Xin Cao Xin 曹辛 is the secretary-general of the International Public Opinion Research Center of the Chahar Institute and a researcher at the Peninsula Peace Research Center. Original title: “Does China’s Diplomacy Need a Big Adjustment?” Cao is … Continue reading →

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Wuhan Diary #31: The 35th Day of the Wuhan City Closure — February 26, 2020

Posted on 03/01/2020 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

February 26th the 35th Day of the Wuhan City Closure When I first started writing this diary, I never thought I would still be writing it after 35 days. I thought at first that the city closure was just an … Continue reading →

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Yang Hengjun: Will Kim Jong-un be the Architect of Reform and Opening for the DPRK?

Posted on 04/23/2018 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Fascinating blog post by Chinese-Australian spy novelist Yang Hengjun.  Trump as America’s non-ideological president and the opportunity for change in the relationship with the DPRK that that presents. Like Mr. Spock said in Star Trek V, “We have a saying … Continue reading →

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