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2022: Secretary Xi on Issues for China’s Development

Posted on 05/16/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Released now, part of the full text of Xi Jinping’s speech last December on economic development. A pattern seen over and over is that major speeches seem to come out first as summaries and only later, perhaps after a process … Continue reading →

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2022 Shanghai Lockdown Banned Protest Article: “The Patience of the People of Shanghai Has Reached its Limit”

Posted on 04/18/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

[Radio France International’s Chinese language service discussed this and other reports on the fallout from the strict Shanghai covid closures in an April 17th article. Read it with Google Translate. ] Shanghai People’s Patience has Reached Its Limit Original 普通市民 … Continue reading →

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2022: PRC-Argentina Strategic Partnership

Posted on 02/06/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

An example of a declaration from a meeting with a country with which China has a strategic parnership, one of the several categories of China’s bilateral relationships. For more detail, see English below of the report on the Argentine-Chinese agreement … Continue reading →

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China State Post Bureau Cautions Against Foreign Mail, Imports as Possible Source of Covid-19 Contagion

Posted on 01/19/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Aiming to bring domestic transmission of COVID-19 from scatter cases to zero, China is taking measures of the potential but as yet unconfirmed possibility that imports and mail delivery could result in new COVID-19 cases in China. A July 2021 … Continue reading →

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PRC: Massive Disinfection of Domestic and Foreign Mail

Posted on 01/16/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

As China struggles to eliminate and prevent coronvirus infections to stay close to or at zero infections, it seems that even the low probability chance of infection by mail is important. From what I read on the Internet (well sources … Continue reading →

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2021: Propagandizing Foreigners to Reach China’s Domestic Audience: Why PRC External Propaganda is Often Ineffective

Posted on 11/07/2021 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

He Qinglian’s book Hongse Qinlve 红色侵略 [Red Infiltration] discusses the impressive PRC media outreach and pressure overt and covert to bring ostensibly independent Chinese media outlets under Party control or heavy influence. Parts of the book on PRC infiltration of … Continue reading →

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Vaccination in China: Several Legal Issues Regarding Vaccination with the Novel Coronavirus Vaccine

Posted on 11/07/2021 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Several Legal Issues Regarding Vaccination with the Novel Coronavirus Vaccine Author: Wang Guisong, J.D., professor at the Law School of Renmin University of China.Article source: “New Briefs” on August 23, 2021. As of August 20, more than 1.9 billion doses … Continue reading →

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2021: Zhang Weiwei: Asian Values are Superior to Western Values

Posted on 05/28/2021 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Professor Zhang Weiwei of Fudan University, in an April 26, 2021 broadcast on China Dragon TV, discussed how Asian values can help overcome the influence of Western values. The superior values of Asia which are more collectively-oriented, strike a better … Continue reading →

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Beijing Daily: President Trump Highlights Flaws in the American System

Posted on 08/13/2020 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

The PRC party-state has always been much more sensitive to U.S. criticisms of China than the reverse. Western criticisms of Chinese Communist Party are felt as an existential threat to the party not because of any physical threat but because … Continue reading →

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2005: Avian Flu Cover-up Chronicles

Posted on 08/27/2017 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

The difficulty of diagnosing bird flu makes it hard to know if an epidemic is underway. It must be even harder for doctors to diagnose an epidemic if information on other cases is not being published so that they could … Continue reading →

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