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2023 Lecture to NPC #7: Xi Jinping Thought and Building China’s New Energy System

Posted on 12/09/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

This is the seventh in a series of seven lectures given to the 170 members of the PRC National People’s Congress Standing Committee. The Standing Committee is the standing legislative body of China; the full 3000-member NPC meets for two … Continue reading →

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2023: PRC Cracks Down on Earthworm Electrocutions

Posted on 04/29/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

The Letters section of Science magazine on April 21, 2023 published five Chinese scientists reported that China had banned electric capture of earthworms and called for legislation to penalizes electric earthworm capture. Chinese scientists often make policy recommendations to the … Continue reading →

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1998: PLA Navy Captain on Resources and Maritime Security

Posted on 04/25/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Summary: Competition on the Pacific Ocean: Problems in Maritime Strategy for Modern China , an October 1998 book by Captain Wu Chunguang of the PLA Navy Political Work Research Institute argues that the greatest threat to China is not a … Continue reading →

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2022: Secretary Xi on Issues for China’s Development

Posted on 05/16/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Released now, part of the full text of Xi Jinping’s speech last December on economic development. A pattern seen over and over is that major speeches seem to come out first as summaries and only later, perhaps after a process … Continue reading →

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PRC Scholars on China’s Goals for Stopping Carbon Emission Increases and then Moving as Quickly as Possible to Carbon Neutrality

Posted on 08/01/2021 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Translated text of the article 碳达峰、碳中和的经济学解读 [ Explaining the Economics of Reaching Peak Carbon and Carbon Neutrality ] Guangming Ribao June 22, 2021. Also distributed in Chinese by the PRC official Xinhua Press Agency. 　　Editor’s note. 　　In September 2020, General … Continue reading →

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2017 Zhang Xuebo: Observations on the History of Rule by Document 1982-2017

Posted on 01/09/2021 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

During my five years at the U.S. Embassy Beijing Environment, Science and Technology Section 2006 – 2012, I found much grand-scale and local politics, law, and economics behind the phenomena I was struggling to understand. China wanted to join the … Continue reading →

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1990s: PRC Scholars on Xinjiang — Analysis and Policy Recommendations

Posted on 08/09/2020 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Here are some reading notes I made while working in the U.S. Embassy Beijing Environment, Science and Technology Section (1996 – 2001). These I have copied from the old U.S. Embassy Beijing website preserved on the Internet Archive. Here I … Continue reading →

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1997: Should Chinese Environmental Quality Reports No Longer Be Kept Secret?

Posted on 09/15/2017 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

I just ran across a translation I did twenty years ago — it is an interview in Sanlian Shenghuo Weekly with NPC Environment Committee Chair Qu Geping  曲格平 [China Vitae: http://www.chinavitae.com/biography/Qu_Geping%7C1685   %5D Interesting to meditate upon on how times have changed and … Continue reading →

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Armed with Marxism, Chinese Science PhDs Strike Back

Posted on 08/24/2017 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Science is a good thing!  科学是个好东西！ Just like Democracy is a good thing!  民主是个好东西！Going back to May Fourth at least. Seeing ideological quotations in scientific journals does bring me back a ways.  I remember seeing boldfaced Mao quotes in medical … Continue reading →

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2009: Indictment of Tan Zuoren 谭做人 for Subversion

Posted on 07/30/2017 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

From a Chinese website, a photograph of the indictment of Tan Zuoren charged with subversion for talking about things that happened twenty years ago. One of the things mentioned in the indictment is encouraging people to give blood in remembrance … Continue reading →

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