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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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2020: PRC Developments of Marxism — Yu Bin: On the Philosophy of “Contradiction”

How has the PRC’s Marxist ideology (defined in China as Marx thru Xi) changed? Part of the story could be changes that happen as each generation adopts a different explanation of the tradition, another by changed circumstances, sometimes called changes … Continue reading

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2025: PRC Cybersecurity Association Warns of Repeated US Cyber Attacks Against Universities, Defense Contractors

An August 1, 2025 notice from the Cybersecurity Association of China 【中国网络空间安全协会】warned of attacks by US intelligence agencies on China. The Cyber Security Association of China (CSAC) is a national, non-profit industry association founded in 2016. CSAC is not a … Continue reading

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2025: US – China? Given US Policy Instability and Craziness, China Sees Nobody to Negotiate with on the US Side

When people think about how other countries actually function, given our limitations as puny carbon-based entities, we naturally try to think about them as if they functioned like our own country. I got to thinking, how does the US appear … 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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2024: Xmas Charm Offensive from China — Essay Contest Call for Entries: “Stories of Sino-U.S. Friendship and Cooperation”

Reminds 物极必反 wùjí bìfǎn old Chinese saying — when things have gone to one extreme, things have to turn around. US – China relations have not been good for some years so … Maybe a reset for the next president? … Continue reading

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2008 : PRC Spy Novel “Fatal Weapon” — Vol II in Yang Hengjun’s Series

Here is my translation of volume II of Yang Hengjun’s Chinese spy trilogy. Many retired spies went on to write spy novels. Graham Greene, Ian Fleming, John le Carré/David Cornwall, Stella Rimington, Charles McCarry, Frederick Forsyth, Jason Matthews fueled their … 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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2021: Reception of US SciFi in China; A Chinese SF Grandmaster — Ye Yonglie 叶永烈

Ye Yonglie (1940-2020) Chinese author and occasional film director, sometimes under the pen-names Ye Yang, Ye Ting, Xiao Yong or Jiu Yuan, whose output stretches to fifty volumes of material, of which twenty-four are listed as “works popularizing science”. A … Continue reading

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2023 Liu Zhaojia: Will the U.S. Decline Peacefully?

URLs added. I noticed that the U.S. officials mentioned are from the Trump Administration and the scholars cited are mostly neoconservatives. Various views Chinese scholars on US decline; some question whether the US is in fact declining: Liu Zhaojia: Will … Continue reading

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