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

Posted on 06/03/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

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

Posted on 04/25/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

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

Posted on 02/18/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

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?

Posted on 06/02/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

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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2021/3 RFA: China’s Tweeter Criminal Served 14 Months Jail Time, Fled PRC, on Snakehead Road to USA

Posted on 05/30/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

I hear more and more about Chinese people emigrating to other countries. It is always a current topic, a bit more these days. Some are discouraged about unemployment, oppression, and their future prospects. Many Chinese who left in the 1980s … Continue reading →

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2023: PRC Balloon Blacklist; Aerospace Experts, ChatGPT Comment

Posted on 02/11/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Also in this series: See also: The Conversation: Chinese spy balloon over the US: An aerospace expert explains how the balloons work and what they can see Contents: US just announced blacklist of some Chinese companies that manufacture components of the … 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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2020: Deteriorating Sino-Soviet Relations and Chinese Intelligence

Posted on 02/08/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

[I have been having fun lately exploring machine translation. Here, although I have forgotten most of the first year Russian I learned 20 years ago, I find that using DeepL, the Russian search engine yandex.ru to find articles and online … Continue reading →

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Yang Hengjun’s PRC Spy Novel: Fatal Weakness Vol I

Posted on 02/04/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Chinese-Australian novelist and blogger Yang Hengjun, now imprisoned in China after four years of torture and incessant interrogation, is the author of a trilogy of contemporary novels about both PRC Ministry of State Security spies and freelance “citizen spies” with … Continue reading →

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2018 Foundations of the DARPA Model’s Effectiveness: Lessons for China’s Military S&T II

Posted on 12/01/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

This second in a series of what might be called “love letters to DARPA” written by Chinese scholars looking for lessons that can be used to argue for reform in the Chinese science and technology system and in particular the … Continue reading →

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