Author Archives: 高大伟 David Cowhig

About 高大伟 David Cowhig

After retirement translated, with wife Jessie, Liao Yiwu's 2019 "Bullets and Opium", and have been studying things 格物致知. Worked 25 years as a US State Department Foreign Service Officer including ten years at US Embassy Beijing and US Consulate General Chengdu and four years as a China Analyst in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research. Before State I translated Japanese and Chinese scientific and technical books and articles into English freelance for six years. Before that I taught English at Tunghai University in Taiwan for three years. And before that I worked two summers on Norwegian farms, milking cows and feeding chickens.

2022: PRC Demographer Yuan Xin: Low Fertility Challenge Calls for Policy Response

Posted on 08/06/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

See also related translations: 2022: PRC Fertility: Cash Short and Child Poor? 2021: PRC Analysts: Population Aging, Declining Fertility Make PRC Family/Fertility Policy Change Imperative 2021: Private Out, State Further “In” as Chinese Education Focuses on the Family 2021: Liang Jianzhang: Too Many … Continue reading →

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Various Wiki Languages: China’s Final Warning

Posted on 08/04/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Looking at different language versions of Wikipedia for a certain topic (on Chinese topics, the Chinese language one is often the richest of course). Here is an example. Below I have copied the Google Translate machine translations for the Russian … Continue reading →

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2022: Dagens Nyheter: PRC, Not Pelosi is Being Provocative

Posted on 08/03/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

This editorial appeared in Sweden’s Dagens Nyheter on August 3, 2022. It is followed by a Google Translate machine translation of the Swedish Chinese affairs website article New Chinese military exercises around Taiwan after Pelosi’s visit [Nya kinesiska militärövningar runt … Continue reading →

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VOA Chinese on Pelosi Visit: Is Taiwan Strait Military Showdown Imminent?

Posted on 08/02/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Wondering how the Voice of America was presenting the Pelosi visit to its Chinese audience, I found this article among others. If you would like to scan the other articles, you can click through to them via Google Translate. Below … Continue reading →

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2021: Xi Jinping on the Three Political Strengths

Posted on 07/30/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

The Chinese Communist Party’s laser-like focus on maintaining its political leadership in China, while always evident, has been even more so during Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping’s decade. Looking at the collection of Xi’s discussions of the “Three Political … Continue reading →

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2022: PRC Minister Xiao Yiqing Under Investigation

Posted on 07/28/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Wikipedia MIIT note: The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the Chinese government, established in March 2008, is the state agency of the People’s Republic of China responsible for regulation and development of the postal service, Internet, wireless, broadcasting, communications, production of electronic and … Continue reading →

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Xi Jinping’s Chinese Melting Pot

Posted on 07/27/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

National and sometimes national chauvinist thinking has been natural to many people in the West for the past several centuries. Allegiance to a nation is expected to supercede allegiance to one’s ethnic group and locality in service to a nation-state. … Continue reading →

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2022: Communist Party Leadership of the PRC Legislative Process

Posted on 07/21/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

In March 2022 this article appeared on the website of the PRC National People’s Congress which is the leading organ for making and interpreting national legislation. So one might imagine that it is authoritative. Professor Zhang Xuebo’s article “Observations on … Continue reading →

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Tsai Ing-wen’s speech at President Chiang Ching-kuo Memorial Park Sparked Debate

Posted on 07/14/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Tsai Ing-wen’s speech at the opening of Taiwan’s former President Chiang Ching-kuo Memorial Park Raised Political Issues and Sparked Debate February 5, 2022 Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen recently attended the opening ceremony of the “Ching-kuo Seven Seas Cultural Park” in … Continue reading →

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2020: Chinese on US vs. PRC Economy, Science, Education, Outlook for Bilateral Relations

Posted on 07/14/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Today I came across this set of three articles comparing the US and China in various dimensions and considering the outlook for bilateral relations. These three articles are translated below. Comparing US and PRC Statistical Indicators Re-conceptualization of Sino-US Relations … Continue reading →

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