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2024 NPC Lecture: AI and China — History, Prospects, Challenges, Strategies and Legislation

Posted on 06/20/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Sun Ninghui’s lecture to the Standing Committee of the PRC National People’s Congress reflects Chinese hopes and concerns on AI, its applications, and its role in strengthening China in international commercial competition. Sun also refers to AI’s role as a … Continue reading →

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2024: Xi’s New Quality Productivity Innovation Builds China and Makes the World a Better Place

Posted on 06/19/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping has recently been discussing grand strategies for China’s way forward. While Xi Jinping Thought has Xi’s name attached, it is a corporate enterprise refined over the years through a process of constant development, … Continue reading →

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2024: Ham Radio in China, Soon Chinese Hams in Space

Posted on 05/22/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

I’ve talked with Chinese hams during some of my overseas postings — as 7J6CBQ in Okinawa, Japan and as 7Q7DFC in Lilongwe, Malawi — though not yet from my home station in Virginia. During my ten years working as a … Continue reading →

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2024: Xinhua Explains New and Quality Productivity aka New Quality Productive Forces 新质生产力

Posted on 04/22/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Xinhua last week explained how the latest Secretary Xi buzzword often translation as ‘new productive forces’ should be understood. I wonder if the term ‘new productive forces’ arise from an ambiguity in Chinese that, as the Xinhua article suggests, befuddles … Continue reading →

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2024: Chinese Explications of Sec Xi’s ‘New Quality Productivity/Productive Force’

Posted on 03/05/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

The Chinese economy has hit some rough weather as the potential of neo-mercantilist export -led growth to drive economic growth has petered out. Even the global economy can become saturated with Chinese exports and the Martian market hasn’t been opened … Continue reading →

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2024: New Top Data Regulator; Can IPR Improve Data Sharing?

Posted on 03/03/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Central guidance from the recently-established National Data Administration (国家数据局) promises to reduce the current confused situation of “twenty dragons ruling the waters”. Poor IPR protection for data reduces efficiency overall as it can make some companies and local governments hold … Continue reading →

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2023: Russia, A Prime Chinese Spying Target

Posted on 02/16/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

The PRC and the Russian Federation have drawn closer in recent years facing as they do the perfidious ‘Western bloc’. Nonetheless, Russia has long been a top target of Chinese espionage. I remember reading on the PRC Commission for Science, … Continue reading →

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2024: Issues of Financial Security for China

Posted on 01/24/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Below translated via DeepL and a few homo sap tweaks, an article on financial security from the online crowd-sourced MBA Knowledge Base Encyclopedia MBA智库百科 . The section of the article on Issues of Financial Security for China I have placed first. … Continue reading →

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2023: China’s Robots and Robot Industry Development Plans

Posted on 12/17/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Today a cluster of translations about the robotics industry in China. Starting with research on robot arms/effectors, broadening out to look at the kind of robot projects Chinese graduate students are doing in robot competitions, and then to overviews of … Continue reading →

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2023: MSS Think Tank on “Effects of the Ukraine Crisis and Lessons Learned”

Posted on 04/08/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

This overview from the PRC Ministry of State Security think tank — the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR) — can provide insight into some Chinese perspectives on the Ukraine-Russia war and possibly on some of the less sensitive information … Continue reading →

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