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2025: PRC Scholars on Sino-US Trump 2.0 AI Rivalry

Related on this translation blog China and AI: The New Phase of AI Rivalry Between China and the US in the Trump 2.0 Era 特朗普2.0时期中美人工智能博弈的新阶段 December 25, 2025 by Lu Chuanying and Cai Yue Lu Chuanying 鲁传颖 is a Special … Continue reading

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2016: Lao Dongyan to Tsinghua Law School Grads — Strive to Be Someone Who Isn’t Easily Misled

The graduation speech by Professor Lao Dongyan 劳东燕 to the 2016 graduates of the Tsinghua University Law School. See also her article 2022: Chinese Law Prof’s Lament and Encouragement. This 2016 speech is no longer available on the Tsinghua University website … Continue reading

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2024: Party Control of Universities Tightens Further

Radio Free Asia just did a report on further consolidation of Party control over universities. Continuing with the Xi acceleration of the trend of merging Party and state organizations (called one office, two nameplates) the office of the president of … Continue reading

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2022: China Protests and Retribution

Contents: This poem said to have appeared at Tsinghua University is circulating online in China. Many dots are added around the Chinese characters, apparently to frustrate the character recognition software that online censors used to scrub the Chinese networks clean. … Continue reading

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2020: Tsinghua U Public Emergency Response Plan

With the outbreak of student protests across China about Covid lockdowns and other grievances, many Chinese universities must be dusting off their emergency plans. The 2020 Tsinghua University plan translated below is one such plan. Some of these plans address … Continue reading

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2022: Chinese Law Prof’s Lament and Encouragement

Tsinghua University Law Professor Lao Dongyan‘s article combines lamentations about the current trends in society and legal practice with a determination to keep up the fight for what seems the ever-more-distant goal of the rule of law in China. Professor … Continue reading

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2022 Yan Xuetong: Young Chinese College Students Often Condescending Towards Foreign Countries

Arrogance is a common human failing no matter which country you are in. This, however, in not just one of those what is the younger generation coming to rants. During my ten years living in China as a US diplomat … Continue reading

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2021: What My Beloved Tsinghua Has Become Angers Me

Social criticism in the current atmosphere has become more difficult. Over the past decade since Chinese Party General Secretary Xi, now in his second of only-Marx-knows-how-many terms in power, the stress on correct thinking and staying in line with the … Continue reading

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Xu Zhangrun: The People are Angry and No Longer Afraid

Back in early February, Geremie R. Barmé translated this essay by Tsinghua University Law School Professor Xu Zhangrun. Viral Alarm: When Fury Overcomes Fear — An Essay by Xu Zhangrun, Translated and Annotated by Geremie R. Barmé This essay made … Continue reading

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