高大伟 David Cowhig
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Retired US diplomat. My personal views. Resemblance to US policy entirely coincidental. Ham call WA1LBP 退休的美国外交官. 这里是我的个人意见与偏见，不代表任何一个人，政权，团体或者外星人背后所控制的傀儡。
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Beijing October 2005 near the Zhongnanhai leadership compound in Beijing. Taken from a taxi. One of my best photos. The composition turned out well by accident! I'm more of a snapshotist than a photographer.
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PRC Renmin University to foreign teachers: Please always remember to shut up. It is nice to remind people to be polite, but this goes to extremes! From Renmin U website.
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Transl:"Chengdu people are passionate. Many young people went to Wangping Street, the video was sent by a friend's daughter. She said: If everyone wants to save their lives or silence, this country will never have hope."
Crowd shouts "Freedom for the news media! 新聞自由,
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On June 1, famous scholar Li Yi argued that if 140 million in China die for the reunification of Taiwan, that matters little. "Many Chinese are already prepared, ...... with a little education, young people will agree that for the sake of unification 140 million can die."
6月1日，著名学者李毅再次发表暴论
称如果因为统一台湾中国死去一亿四千亿人，这在人类历史上是小菜一碟。
“我想很多中国人应该已经做了准备……如果稍加教育，这些年轻人都会同意，为了统一台湾，大陆可以死上一亿四千万人”
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Azerbaijani businessman in Odessa, owner of the restaurant "Evening Baku", philanthropist Shamil Guliyev organized a free distribution of bread and food to the population. 🇦🇿🇺🇦
Come here!
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Chengdu protests "Down with leader for life! Down with the emperor!"
Old Chinese saying, "When China is in chaos, Sichuan is the first to erupt into chaos... "
莫之许：天下未乱蜀先乱
Mo Zhixu article in Google Translate.
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俄罗斯最古老的大学--著名的莫斯科国立大学的近4000名学者、学生和毕业生签署了一封信，称他们 "明确谴责我们国家在乌克兰发动的战争
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@TheresaAFallon
@michaelturton
@FT
Lots of research collaboration certainly and lots of smart Chinese scientists making contributions and being part of int'l sci community. Using loaded words like 'penetrate' and 'dominate' sheds darkness rather than light.
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居住在俄罗斯的乌克兰数学家康斯坦丁-奥尔梅佐夫 Konstantin Olmezov因其亲乌克兰的观点而受到俄罗斯警察的骚扰。 他自杀了。他留下了一张纸条，虽然是俄中DeepL机器翻译而已令我很感动。
Wow… A 🇺🇦 mathematician Konstantin Olmezov who lived in 🇷🇺 & was pressured for his pro-
#Ukraine
views committed suicide.
In his farewell note he wrote: “I’m an atheist. So, I depart into nowhere. But this nowhere’s better than the savagery of today’s
#Russia
”.
#StandWithUkraine
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1974：U.S. Balloons Invaded PRC Airspace, Zhou Enlai Furious Orders Destroy It At All Costs
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看了百度，要解决我中文看不懂的句子。。有时候收获很大。。。。““都说我们是社会主义的花朵，长大了，我们才明白是用来炒鸡蛋、包饺子的花。”
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中国教授声明： 俄罗斯对乌克兰的入侵与我们的态度
英文翻译： PRC Profs: Our Attitude Towards Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
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@ThisIsWenhao
The police shoulder patch reads People's Republic of China police with a red star in the middle. No, not Taiwan police.
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“六四天網”的55嵗的異議分子黃琦，在獄中腎衰竭，瀕臨死亡 Ailing Rights Activist 'Beaten' by Prosecutor in China's Sichuan: Lawyer
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两周前我们到了纽约市拜访河南抗艾滋病医生高耀洁。 她虽然94岁，还是很忙写书，写诗。她送我们她去年出版的第二本回忆录-- 烟雨任平生 --高耀��晚年口述 The Oral History of GaoYaojie。2019年世界华语出版社-昆仑出版社。ISBN号码 978-0-36-845188-1 #中国
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The myth of autocratic competence takes another hit h/t Don Clarke
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很多美国外交部外语教材可以下载。因为没有版权，美国有部分外语米设了网站介绍这个教材。你也可以下载语音教材。目前为止网络上有30国家的国语包括阿拉伯语，俄语，部分非洲国语。 FSI Language Courses - Home
http://t.co/0m4jPlTl
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Riot control police vehicles moved into Shanghai.
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@BeijingPalmer
Yes. A district party secretary from Chengdu told my friend Yin Shuping a decade ago after a trip to Taiwan: "I was amazed not to see police everywhere. And when I saw a policeman, he looked at me and smiled!"
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Chengdu protests:
"We don't want a leader for life political system!"
"We don't want an emperor!"
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@Bobserving
@olex_scherba
@joncoopertweets
Thank you. I tried too with Google Lens, copying text to DeepL. Very moving even though just a machine translation.
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美国国会的一个中美关系研究机构新报告：中共统战部的海外工作 "China’s Overseas United Front Work: Background and Implications for the United States by Alexander Bowe, Policy Analyst, Security and Foreign Affairs
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@DuncanWeldon
Yes, I've wondered about that. A successful coup d'etat is remembered fondly! Otherwise, off with his head!
Zhuang Zi said "Steal a hook and be executed; steal a country and become king." Tōu gōu zhě shā, dào guó zhě wéi wáng hòu. 庄子：偷钩者杀，盗国者为王候.
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Chinese students protest outside the Pompidou Center, Paris.
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英文翻译： 许章润：愤怒的人民已不再恐惧
Viral Alarm: When Fury Overcomes Fear
An Essay by Xu Zhangrun, Translated and Annotated by Geremie R. Barmé
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黄琦：华盛顿邮报编辑部发表评论支持成都监狱里的维权卫士。In China, an outspoken human rights defender withers away in jail
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@ZhangTaisu
@PKU1898
@Tsinghua_Uni
Translation of statement by Peking University student group of 40 and another by some Tsinghua University alumni. Peking U suggests way forward on COVID; Tsinghua alumni focus on protecting students from university crackdown on protestors.
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In Their Own Words:
中国制度面对面
"China’s System Face to Face"
by the Theory Bureau of the Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee
Free PDF book download
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@TrueFactsStated
It would be ironic if the Democrats failed to gain control of the Senate after VP Warren was elected because the GOP governor of Mass appointed a new GOP senator.
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@zhao_dashuai
Yes, the Russians have stolen so much Chinese land and now China says the two countries are solid friends! Talk about former subjugators! Fortunately some Chinese scholars talk about this.
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Changsha Police: On 1/23 Zhou spread false rumors of four coronavirus cases in Changsha. We caught him, confessed, to be detained and fined. Actually only 1 case plus 4 in isolation. Shall continue crack down hard on those spreading false rumors!
#coronavirus
#China
#武汉疫情
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Trans:“We don't want lies, we want dignity;
We don't want lockdowns, we want reform;
We don't want dictatorship, we want elections;
We don't want to be slaves, we want revolution;
Boycott classes, reject lockdowns。。。
assert our rights..
angry w/ Xi Jinping
Down with Xi Jinping
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@ZhangTaisu
Dramatic Differences: Reports to 18th and 20th Chinese Communist Party Congress Keyword Frequencies Compared. GLens transl of
@ZhangTaisu
chart. For safety, read security.
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Masks with a little map of Taiwan.
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@julesterpak
@SethCotlar
Spain has a law about photographing people w/o their consent. Perhaps we go too far for US tastes but some version and its enforcement could help.
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From CICR, a Chinese government intelligence service foreign policy think tank with inner and outer names.
Double naming: Party/government; inner facing/outer facing for some offices is a common PRC practice.
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Dr. Li Wenliang Dec 30 social media warned med workers (date on police letter) same day as urgent order (bc higher-ups so ordered) from Wuhan Municipal Health Commission to hospitals to report unk origin pneumonia cases. 李文亮医师给医生群微信警告，武汉卫生委紧急通知同一天。
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@lajohnstondr
@JKynge
@vshih2
@shirleyzeyu
@michaelxpettis
@berthofmanecon
@Kanthan2030
@CarlZha
@BrankoMilan
@YuanfenYang
@StellaHongZhang
@yixiansun
Thank you, a very interesting article!
2023: The Past, Present and Future of Chinese Economics by Peking University Professor Yao Yang 英文翻译：《中国经济学的过去、现在和未来》 作者：姚洋
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@bryanyang
Will the Chinese government stop calling swine flu African Swine Flu 非洲猪瘟? Should set good example if it wants change. If life were fair, the Spanish Flu of 1918 might have been called the Kansas Flu. Some scientists think it started there.
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@uoftotaku
He said in video US lost one-tenth of population in Civil War, so in China's case today that would come to 140 million though likely not including himself with his US green card.
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A fascinating resource on China's foreign relations: declassified PRC diplomatic documents in the Wilson Center's Digital Archive.
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@badiucao
Thank you for this! I copied it onto my blog. The censors make so much valuable Chinese material disappear!
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@mranti
adversary/rival = 对手 不等于敌人就与"境外敌对势力”不一样.
"An adversary is someone you want to defeat. An enemy is someone you have to destroy. With adversaries, compromise is honorable: Today’s adversary could be tomorrow’s ally."
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@DougJBalloon
As long as he does the hard work of being president well, why should anyone care if the NYT gets an interview or not?
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@nytchinese
今年有原美国选手放弃美国国籍代表祖国。如果放弃美国国籍必须跟美国政府讲，18岁以下不一定被接受。接受的话， 放弃美国国籍的人都在“Federal Register"公布。如果她名字不见，她还是美国公民。中国不让公民有别的国籍。除非奥运会运动员是个例外？
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@djrothkopf
@srs2_
The U.S. military is a trustworthy defender of the U.S. Constitution so I don't worry about that. It is the abdication and emptiness at the top of the US government that is the danger. Now we see it more dramatically but it has been there for a long while.
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@S_Rabinovitch
Good story! Another: Beijing police called US consular officer, saying "We have detained a crazy American, you have to repatriate him!" The US consular officer asked, "How do you know he is crazy?" The answer came back "He is asking for political asylum in China!"
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@KaiserKuo
In China, talking to people 1-on-1 people vy frank w/ me. Is Party taking names now ?Liu Shaoqi: "hold back, let the snakes come out..." 当牛鬼蛇神出笼攻击我们的时候， 不要急于反击，要告诉左派，要硬着头皮顶住，领导上要善于掌握火候。等到牛鬼蛇神大部分暴露了，一定要把他们揪出来。》
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@thelilynews
@bokane
@CAKitchener
If
@NPR
is big about it, they'll invite her back on, discuss her book and go into the story of how she was scooped, and look into how widespread is phenomenon. That would make a good program.
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@BaldingsWorld
I don't think the CCP was that different in the 1990s deep down. The people's democratic dictatorship and one-party rule have always been bedrock. Totalitarian then, totalitarian now. Tactics different because of different political, economic needs and threat perceptions.
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@Mpolymer
@IlvesToomas
Yes, amateur hour from the start. Why so many unnecessary mistakes -- they just can't consult widely, think any advice contrary to their (Trump's) views must be a deep state conspiracy. Though nightmare would have been a Trump w/Nixon's competence. Maybe we got off lightly.
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Translation: "If seven months ago Qin Gang had not been appointed foreign minister but had remained as PRC ambassador to the USA, wouldn't he have had a happier life? Therefore, it is just as Lao Zi said "Ah fortune! Therein calamity awaits."
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@TimOBrien
People can defend themselves in defamation suits if they can show that they reasonably thought what they said was true and had no malicious intent. Looks like Fox ain't so sure about some of its people. They only just found out?
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@SariArhoHavren
Would have been a good peace plan for China in 1941. Why not peace and let Japan keep what it has taken?
The PRC even has that bloody line in their national anthem about 'making our flesh and blood a great wall' against the invaders. 我们的血肉，筑成我们新的长城——抗战精神述评.
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中国抗击艾滋血祸的英雄，是些什么人? 有
高耀洁：民间防艾第一人
桂希恩：发现中国艾滋村第一人
王淑平：报告河南艾滋疫情第一人
孙永德：预警疫情上书中央第一人
高燕宁：高校走进河南艾滋村研究第一人
介绍王淑平的故事剧本9月5日在伦敦开场。
#HTHellsPalace
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Translation of Fu Zhibin comment: "If you didn't read other media reports, you might think that the United States invaded Chinese airspace and shot down a Chinese civilian aircraft."
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Fmr PRC Amb to Ukraine on Russia’s Impending Defeat and International Relations
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昨天下午我们走进白宫时候，看到很多穿万圣节服装的小孩子进入白宫"捣蛋". 总统安全队伍面临那么多鬼与怪物好像有点紧张。总统亲人欢迎穿大象服装的小孩！
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@TGTM_Official
He's wrrong about the Geneva Convention too. Irregular forces are protected as long as part of a unit and marked.
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"Epidemic in Wuhan: Mama Passed Away in a Wuhan Hospital Isolation Room" 《媽媽在武漢隔離病房去世》英文翻译 translation of a report popular on Chinese social media today.
#coronarvirus
#WuhanCoronavirus
#CoronaOutbreak
#武汉疫情
#virus
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@BeijingPalmer
The Chinese leadership does not actually want a war with the U.S., or even a meaningful confrontation. It wants to distract from its cataclysmic failings. The problem is that US leaders can't be certain of that.
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一个女生的日记：这才是真实的武汉(组图)
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@suea_thornton
Met so many friends in Chengdu 2007 - 2012. Learned so much from Sichuan people. Lots of memories, photos too though often cloudy. 蜀犬吠日 They say Sichuan dogs bark at the sun, that strange apparition! 物极必反
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@djrothkopf
No, fail was Congress and GOP, refused special prosecutor. Mueller did all possible w/i severe constraints - not allowed to consider/investigate Trump responsibility -- then AG misrepresented results, saying no T wrongdoing found tho such a finding wud be impos given constraints.
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24日 荷兰王国驻中华人民共和国大使维姆-盖茨:"自第二次世界大战以来，面对俄罗斯的侵略，欧洲从未像今天这样感到威胁——这是一个来自核大国和联合国安理会常任理事国的侵略行为。但自欧盟成立以来，它也从未像现在这样团结。我们的政府和我们的公民坚信，支持乌克兰是正确的选择。"（英文后有中文翻译)
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@melissakchan
Yes, lack of trust, history of concealing info breeds panic. Expert level good but pol interference like police stopping doc's soc media tweets. Taking the public out of public health does not work. Party scared of instability but their repression causes it.
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@ClintTwist
Thanks. Zhou Enlai said to Nixon's question about '68 "It's too early to say." about the 1968 revolutionary movement in France. Used Google Lens to translate a bit.
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List of 202 People Killed in the Massacre Collected by the Tiananmen Mothers’ Group (1989-2011)
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@melissakchan
The least Hugo Awards should do would be to apologize and put RF Kuang and Xiran Jay Zhao back on the ballot for Glasgow.
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Hu Muying, Xi's friend, heads princeling association, propaganda boss Hu Qiaomu's daughter: Most returned Chinese students brainwashed; as profs infect students w/liberal, capitalist ideas. Teacher ranks must be rectified! Party is losing ground, it's voice must be heard!
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@ZhangTaisu
Diplomatic jiujitsu. 'I am confident that China will do the right thing' sort of statement. Applying pressure without applying pressure.
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@CGMeifangZhang
Yes. Logic would be China should have surrendered to Japan in 1939. After all back then China hadn't given Japan security guarantees and was even getting some provocative help, from the Soviet Union ('Flying Bears' ) and Germany until t 1940 (pre Axis).
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Wenchuan County, Sichuan court official warns that using a VPN to access foreign websites punishable up to 3 yrs imprisonment less serious cases, up to seven serious cases. Previously punished by fines, brief admin detention. 2019 BBC story
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@AstroKatie
Yes, I seen President Macron's last two speeches on French television and felt the same way.
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@melissakchan
Yes, to see what the Chinese people are being told, you can run the full transcript of the PRC main evening news broadcast, the lianbo jiemu,through Google Translate. Nearly all from the Russian perspective. ..
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@BaldingsWorld
A Japanese diplomat told me (with a laugh) a long time ago that China acts more friendly towards Japan when relations with the US get tense.
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Translation: "Protests on Hanzheng Street in downtown Wuhan, and instead of stopping, the number of people keeps growing. A local friend of mine said, "It's like the Berlin Wall, isn't it?"
■武漢の繁華街・漢正街の抗議、止まるどころか人はどんどん増えていく
※現地の友人は「ベルリンの壁みたいやろ」とも。。。
#武汉
#汉正街
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@mattysino
They think that way in Texas too. Maybe there are some teachers from Texas at their university?
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