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2025: People’s Daily Commentary on Japanese PM Statement that Taiwan Straits Conflict Would be an Existential Threat to Japan, MOFA 11/14 Statement, Japanese Language Tweet

Posted on 11/14/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

An authoritative People’s Daily November 14, 2025 commentary criticizing Japan’s position on Taiwan came out just a few days after the Japanese Consul General in Osaka suggested that the Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi‘s head should be cut off because … Continue reading →

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2023: PRC Military Commentator Cautions on Underestimating US S&T, Military Strengths

Posted on 02/10/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Chinese military commentators, sometimes serving PLA officers, often provide widely circulated information and misinformation on military affairs. The PLA has a corps of writer senior officers without significant command experience who tend to speak more daringly (to gain an audience?) … Continue reading →

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2022: PRC ForMin Readout: Xi Jinping meets with US President Joe Biden in Bali

Posted on 11/16/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Translated here using DeepL, translation checked against the Chinese text, and revised very slightly. An impressive job here by machine translation actually — it probably helps that the leaders said similar things elsewhere. The smiling face of General Secretary Xi … Continue reading →

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2022: A Wolf Warrior Refrain: Friends Get Wine, Wolves Faced with a Gun

Posted on 06/26/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

 When friends come, there is wine; when wolves come, there are met with a hunting rifle. 朋友来了有美酒，豺狼来了是猎枪 Péngyǒu láile yǒu měijiǔ, cháiláng láile shì lièqiāng A wolf warrior refrain: the PRC ambassador to the ROK Xing Haiming used this phrase … Continue reading →

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2021: Cao Xin: Does China’s Diplomacy Need a Big Adjustment?

Posted on 06/30/2021 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

by Cao Xin Cao Xin 曹辛 is the secretary-general of the International Public Opinion Research Center of the Chahar Institute and a researcher at the Peninsula Peace Research Center. Original title: “Does China’s Diplomacy Need a Big Adjustment?” Cao is … Continue reading →

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2020: Xiao Gongqin: Dealing with the New Pattern in the U.S. – China Game — U.S.-China Relations III

Posted on 05/28/2021 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

This is the third and final part of Xiao Gongqin’s article on U.S. – China relations. The first two parts are: Here Professor Xiao Gongjin continues his critique of Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping’s policy. Xiao argues not for … Continue reading →

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2020: Xiao Gongqin: How the U.S. Chooses its Enemies — U.S.-China Relations II

Posted on 05/25/2021 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

See the first installment of this series, Xiao Gongqin on U.S.-China Relations I: Avoid a Vicious Cycle where you will also see a short biography of Professor Xiao Gongqin. This article provides a fall 2020 perspective on U.S. – China relations. … Continue reading →

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2021: Look at Party Journal Articles: So-Called Wolf Warrior Diplomats Unremarkable

Posted on 04/08/2021 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

[Here is have revisited articles I translated two years ago with DeepL and then revised slightly. This time I asked GPT 3.5 to “rewrite in the style of The New Yorker”. This is an off-label use of a Large Language … Continue reading →

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China’s Huayuquan 话语权 — Does it mean ‘China’s Right to Speak’ or ‘the Right to Control Discourse About China’

Posted on 03/24/2021 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

China’s huayuquan is sometimes translated as China’s right to speak. When I read an article about it in a 2009 article in the Communist Party’s ideological journal Qiushi I got the impression that huayuquan meant China should have the dominant … Continue reading →

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2009: Behind the Hurt Feelings of the Chinese People — A Threat to the Regime

Posted on 03/24/2021 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

The Xinhua publication Global Times on its websites offered a list and map of countries that have hurt the feelings of the Chinese people [(URL link to audio) shānghàile zhōngguó rénmín de gǎnqíng 伤害了中国人民的感情] over the past few decades. Chinese … Continue reading →

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