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1993-2016: “The Logic of Politics” Ch. 2 — Wang Huning on Historical Materialism and Lenin’s “Politics is the Concentrated Expression of Economics”

Chapter two of a Chinese Communist Party catechism — 《政治的逻辑 马克思主义政治学原理》 【The Logic of Politics: Principles of Marxist Political Science】by Wang Huning et al back 40 years ago when Wang Huning was a Shanghai political science academic. Wang Huning is … Continue reading

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2025: PRC Media on 50th Anniversary of EU-PRC Relations

PRC Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Lin Jian on May 6th EU-PRC Relations 50th Anniversary: 2025年5月6日外交部发言人林剑主持例行记者会 CCTV Reporter: Today marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the European Union. How do you evaluate the … Continue reading

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2024: Japanese Ambassador to PRC Kenji Kanasugi Interviewed by Global Times

Japan’s new ambassador to China Kenji Kanasugi: Push relations forward, even one or two steps forward [DeepL machine translation.  Chinese text at 日本新任驻华大使金杉宪治:推动两国关系向前发展,哪怕前进一两步   Some URLs added to the translation below] Source: Global Times article by Xing Xiaojing and Liu Xin … Continue reading

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2019 Fmr PLA General Liu Yazhou: What is Really Scary about the United States?

Former PRC General Liu Yazhou faces a death sentence now that he has been handed over to PRC state and Communist Party officials for prosecution on alleged corruption charges. Some call him pro-American. I find pro-American and anti-American to be … Continue reading

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2021: Chinese Baseball History

Back in the mid 1970s I was astonished to see a photo of inter collegiate baseball competition in China Pictorial, one of the magazines that Radio Peking used to send me from time to time since I had written to … Continue reading

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

 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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2010: Ma Licheng “The Bent Branch: The Nationalist Surge” in Chinese Books

Ma Licheng’s article “The Bent Branch: The Nationalist Surge” 马立诚:压弯的树枝:狂飙突进的民族主义 on extreme political views in China appeared on on several Chinese websites and was picked up by chinaelections.org of the Carter Center  after it appeared in Economic Observer 经济观察报 on November … Continue reading

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2020: Shen Zhihua on State of Chinese Research on Relations with Neighboring Asian Countries

PRC diplomatic history scholar Shen Zhihua’s talk at a 2020 Tsinghua University “Workshop on China’s Border Regions and Asia” 中国边疆与亚洲研究”学术工作坊 is on YouTube. In 2009,China’s Central Military Commission wondered why are relations with the DPRK so very difficult? Shen said those … Continue reading

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2020: Jiangsu Party School Prof: Looking at the “Belt and Road” Initiative from the Perspective of Global Governance with Chinese Characteristics

I often enjoy reading Chinese people writing for other Chinese people about China’s hopes, dreams, successes and challenges. It gives an internal view of China albeit one constrained by what people are allowed to or can get away with writing. … Continue reading

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Curl Up With A Think Tank Video: US – China Innovation Forum at CSIS April 10, 2019

I attended the US – China Innovation Forum at the Center for Strategic and International Studies on Wednesday April 10 which brought together industry leaders, business consultants and scholars to discuss issues surrounding innovation and US – China trade. I’ll … Continue reading

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