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1993 – 2016: (11) : The National Question Is Part of the Overall Question of Social Revolution Chapter Eleven of “The Logic of Politics” 王沪宁等著《政治的逻辑》

Summary:  Chapter Eleven of The Logic of Politics: Principles of Marxist Political Science ‘The National Question Is Part of the Overall Question of Social Revolution’ argues that the national question is inseparable from the history of capitalism’s development and class … Continue reading

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2025: What’s New at the Much-Heralded Fourth Plenum and a Guide to Ideological and Political Terms in the Fourth Plenum Communique

I confess that I haven’t been reading the Party ideological journal Seeking Truth Qiushi 求是 as much when I subscribed to it when worked for the US Mission in China in Beijing and Chengdu. Reading the report on the Party’s … Continue reading

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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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2023 NPC Lectures: #4 Xi on the People’s Congress System

The topic of this lecture, fourth in a series of 2023 lectures delivered to the 170 members of the Standing Committee of China’s 3000-member strong unicameral national legislature the National People’s Congress (NPC), is the application of Xi Jinping Thought … Continue reading

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2023: Chinese on Chinese Political Science

China as a country is unique, in the way that Australia spans two major categories, country and continent, — China is both a single country (as the old saying goes, if divided it must unify; if unified it must divide … Continue reading

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2023: PRC Freedom of Information Blogger Ruan Xiaohuan Persecuted

A Chinese language interview with imprisoned Chinese freedom blogger Ruan Xiaohuan’s wife Ms. Bei on the Conversations with Yuan Li Bumingbai podcast gives insights on Ruan’s core beliefs and influences, including the ethos surrounding the open software and freedom of … Continue reading

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2018 Foundations of the DARPA Model’s Effectiveness: Lessons for China’s Military S&T II

This second in a series of what might be called “love letters to DARPA” written by Chinese scholars looking for lessons that can be used to argue for reform in the Chinese science and technology system and in particular the … Continue reading

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2010: Tibet — From Patriotic Education to Building Long-term Monastery Management Mechanisms

 Here is a translation of 2010 article from the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Party School Professor Gong Xuezeng on how to bring Tibetan monks and nuns who follow the Dalai Lama under control. Explains monastery control methods implemented over past … Continue reading

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2017 Zhang Xuebo: Observations on the History of Rule by Document 1982-2017

During my five years at the U.S. Embassy Beijing Environment, Science and Technology Section 2006 – 2012, I found much grand-scale and local politics, law, and economics behind the phenomena I was struggling to understand. China wanted to join the … Continue reading

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PRC TV on the Superiority of Chinese Democracy

Just watched on You Tube Episode 11: “Origins of Western Democracy, Analyzing and Comparing China’s Superiorities, Zhang Weiwei’s Profound Analysis of Chinese Socialism” from a Dragon TV series China Now —  Understanding China Today that was published on their You … Continue reading

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