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2023: Swedish Armed Forces’ “Lessons from the War in Ukraine”

Posted on 12/14/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Translations from Swedish today. I saw this Swedish Defense Force unclassified report on lessons learned thus far from the War in Ukraine mentioned on Lars Wilderäng’s twitter feed @Cornubot and on his blog Cornucopia: Eternal Growth in a Finite World. Lars Wilderäng … Continue reading →

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2010: A Russian Perspective on the Strategy and Tactics of PRC Intelligence Agencies

Posted on 05/15/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

DeepL and ChatGPT3.5 translated from Glazunov’s The Chinese Threat. The Chinese translation I checked my self; the Russian is beyond my fading one year of Russian — I did check it all over to make sure that it made sense, … Continue reading →

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Yu Ruxin: Through the Storm – The PLA in the Cultural Revolution (Excerpt) II

Posted on 02/23/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Following when the first excerpt Through the Storm – The PLA in the Cultural Revolution (Excerpt) I left off, here is the second one. Chinese assistance was important for North Vietnam’s air defenses. Many U.S. aircraft were shot down by Chinese … Continue reading →

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Reading Ye Fu’s “Requiem for a Landlord”

Posted on 12/16/2020 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

After reading Ye Fu’s essay Requiem for a Landlord , he wrote the story of his own grandfather, a murdered scapegoat of Mao’s 1951 land reforms that killed millions of landowners, big and small as well as other troublesome people … Continue reading →

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2015: Li Jiang 李江:  Why should China’s foreign affairs strategy change gear?*

Posted on 10/03/2017 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

This translation is by a friend of mine who wishes to remain anonymous.  The article appeared on both the Financial Times Chinese language website in July 2015 as well as on the PRC liberal intellectual discussion website Aisixiang. 中国外交战略为何转变？ FT中文网撰稿人李江：在当前的条件下，中国外交战略显得强硬可能是试图通过外交为棘手的内政问题寻找出路，加强意识形态控制，利用反腐整顿吏治均是表现。 … Continue reading →

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