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400/50 BCE：ChatGPT4o on “Feng Xuan Becomes a Retainer of Lord Mengchang” From Strategies of the Warring States

Posted on 03/15/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

German Sinologist Prof. Dr. Michael Höckelmann shared a passage from the Zhanguo Ce 戰國策 Strategies of the Warring States on BlueSky today. “Feng Xuan Becomes a Retainer of Lord Mengchang” is a tale about a wise upwardly mobile official that … Continue reading →

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2025: Exploring Little Red Book — RedNote/Xiao Hongshu

Posted on 01/18/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

I signed up for Little Red Book 小红书 (as in Mao’s Little Red Book) aka Red Note. While I remember the Red Restaurant craze in Beijing of the late 1990s with waiters in Red Guard uniforms serving Maio’s favorite dishes … Continue reading →

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2024 NPC Lecture: AI and China — History, Prospects, Challenges, Strategies and Legislation

Posted on 06/20/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Sun Ninghui’s lecture to the Standing Committee of the PRC National People’s Congress reflects Chinese hopes and concerns on AI, its applications, and its role in strengthening China in international commercial competition. Sun also refers to AI’s role as a … Continue reading →

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2024: Xi’s New Quality Productivity Innovation Builds China and Makes the World a Better Place

Posted on 06/19/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping has recently been discussing grand strategies for China’s way forward. While Xi Jinping Thought has Xi’s name attached, it is a corporate enterprise refined over the years through a process of constant development, … Continue reading →

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2024: Ham Radio in China, Soon Chinese Hams in Space

Posted on 05/22/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

I’ve talked with Chinese hams during some of my overseas postings — as 7J6CBQ in Okinawa, Japan and as 7Q7DFC in Lilongwe, Malawi — though not yet from my home station in Virginia. During my ten years working as a … Continue reading →

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2024: Xinhua Explains New and Quality Productivity aka New Quality Productive Forces 新质生产力

Posted on 04/22/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Xinhua last week explained how the latest Secretary Xi buzzword often translation as ‘new productive forces’ should be understood. I wonder if the term ‘new productive forces’ arise from an ambiguity in Chinese that, as the Xinhua article suggests, befuddles … Continue reading →

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2024: Chinese Explications of Sec Xi’s ‘New Quality Productivity/Productive Force’

Posted on 03/05/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

The Chinese economy has hit some rough weather as the potential of neo-mercantilist export -led growth to drive economic growth has petered out. Even the global economy can become saturated with Chinese exports and the Martian market hasn’t been opened … Continue reading →

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2024: New Top Data Regulator; Can IPR Improve Data Sharing?

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

Central guidance from the recently-established National Data Administration (国家数据局) promises to reduce the current confused situation of “twenty dragons ruling the waters”. Poor IPR protection for data reduces efficiency overall as it can make some companies and local governments hold … Continue reading →

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2023: Russia, A Prime Chinese Spying Target

Posted on 02/16/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

The PRC and the Russian Federation have drawn closer in recent years facing as they do the perfidious ‘Western bloc’. Nonetheless, Russia has long been a top target of Chinese espionage. I remember reading on the PRC Commission for Science, … Continue reading →

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2024: Issues of Financial Security for China

Posted on 01/24/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Below translated via DeepL and a few homo sap tweaks, an article on financial security from the online crowd-sourced MBA Knowledge Base Encyclopedia MBA智库百科 . The section of the article on Issues of Financial Security for China I have placed first. … Continue reading →

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