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2025: PRC Foreign Ministry Country Profile: USA

The PRC Foreign Ministry has a country profile for every country with which the PRC has diplomatic relations. The country profile for the United States as last revised in August 2025. Translated below. The US analog was the CIA World … Continue reading

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1993 – 2016: (9) : Political Party Divisions Are Based on Class Divisions : Chapter Nine of “The Logic of Politics” 王沪宁等著《政治的逻辑》

Now I am about halfway through this translation-exploration of the Chinese Marxist textbook (catechism?) “The Logic of Politics: Principles of Marxist Political Science” 王沪宁等著《政治的逻辑》put together 30 years ago by a group of Shanghai-area Chinese political scientists led by Wang Huning, then … Continue reading

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1923: Chinese Communist Party Co-founder Li Dazhao on Populism

One of the early influences on the young Mao Zedong was Chinese Communist Party co-founder Li Dazaho. Li Dazaho background from Wikipedia: Li Dazhao (simplified Chinese: 李大钊; traditional Chinese: 李大釗; pinyin: Lǐ Dàzhāo; Wade–Giles: Li Ta-chao; 29 October 1889 – … Continue reading

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2025: PRC MOFA ‘Chronology of US-China Bilateral Relations’ via ChatGPT4o with Thoughts on Machine Translation

Example of Unedited ChatGPT 4o Machine Translation Chronology of US – China Bilateral Relations from the website of the PRC Ministry of Foreign Affairs to February 2025 中国同美国的关系 The translation below by ChatGPT4o gives you an idea of what a large language model machine translation … Continue reading

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2025: Taiwan Editorial — Ukraine Betrayed, Are We Next?

United Daily News is one of Taiwan’s three biggest daily newspapers. In Taiwan, it is center-right leaning towards the KMT now in opposition albeit with a coalition majority in the Legislative Yuan. Other translations here related to Taiwan: United Daily … Continue reading

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2025: Greenlander in Danish Folketing — Denmark Not a True Commonwealth

The Danish island of Greenland has been getting much attention lately. President Trump has been saying that he wants the US to get this Danish land as a US possession. Meanwhile many of Greenland’s population of nearly 60,000 seems to … Continue reading

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1943 Wartime Japanese Children’s Literature: Pearl Harbor Day in a Japanese Village

I came across Niimi Nankichi’s wartime Japanese children’s story on the 青空文库 Azora Bunko. The Azora Bunko apparently parallels the Gutenberg Project — its volunteers make older Japanese literature available online. After translating the story, I got interested in its … Continue reading

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2024:VOA on PRC Students in US Seeking Work Permission

It’s H1B Lottery Season Again: Low Winning Rate, Fewer Job Opportunities Chinese Students Lament It’s Getting Harder to Stay in the U.S. 又是H1B抽签季:中签率低、工作机会少 中国学生感叹留美愈发不易 March 26, 2024 AUSTIN – “It’s better to go through the line, don’t have to spend … Continue reading

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2024: PRC Blogger: West Faces Rough World After 70 Years of Prosperity

I saw this recommended on Wang Dan’s twitter feed. An intriguing Chinese perspective, stresses the minuses but not the pluses of immigration (especially as birth rates decline). Many of the minuses are more about nativist backlashes than the immigrants themselves. … Continue reading

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2024:PRC Small Balloons Over Taiwan: Countermeasures; Will PLA Near Space Combat Command Emerge?

Two translations below: Liberty Times 【自由时报】 “The Chinese Communists’ 57 balloons harass Taiwan in January: Experts suggest getting “this kind of laser weapon” to counteract them.“ Taiwan Institute for National Defense and Security Research: “The PLA May Establish a “Near-Space … Continue reading

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