Xi Jinping: “Immeasurable Splendor, many Tribulations”
The following is an excerpt from Xi Jinping’s acceptance speech on March 13 after his “re-election” as State Chairman of the PRC. It starts with some pseudo-history: Xi doesn’t explicitly place...
View ArticleSino-Russian Joint Statement concerning the Deepening of the Comprehensive...
The following are my takeaways from the current March 2023 “Sino-Russian Joint Statement concerning the Deepening of the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership in the New Era”. Many topics had been...
View ArticleOld Folk at the Sun Gate: “China Sincerely Invites Central Asian States into...
This is a summary of how CCTV’s main evening news “Xinwen Lianbo” presented the Xi’an Summit in its May 19, 19 hours local time, edition. Analysis might follow in another blogpost. Let’s focus on...
View ArticleWu Renhua’s “Day-by-Day Chronicle of the 1989 Tian An Men Incident”
我爱北京天安门 (I love Beijing Tian An Men) is a children’s song. It is mostly about Mao Zedong, but still popular – see that video. The following is an overview of some old translations – Tweets by Professor...
View ArticleThe Far East in June, 2023
Straight from Wang Yi’s Beauty Parlor VoA, July 5, 2023 My friends from China, Japan and Korea, when we go to America, they can’t tell us apart as Chinese, Japanese or Korean. We can go to Europe and...
View ArticleFMPRC: overstretching concept of security and politicizaton are...
The following is a Q and A between a German newsmagazine correspondent (“Der Spiegel”) and China’s foreign-ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin (汪文斌), who reveals a sense of humor – warning against...
View ArticleUpgrades, common prosperity and “no ‘welfarism'”– Xi’s 2021 talk on financial...
“Qiushi” published excerpts in October 2021, from a talk given by Xi Jinping about two months earlier, on August 17, 2021 at the Central Financial and Economic Affairs Commission‘s 10th meeting. Xi...
View ArticleAnother Teacher’s Day in China
It was another “teacher’s day” in China on September 9th, the country’s 39th such day, and an unspecified number of “outstanding teacher representatives” descended on Beijing to hold a symposium there....
View Article“New Development Concept” (新发展理念)
If you go by this online glossary by “The Center of Strategic Translation”, [T]he roots of the problem set tackled by the New Development Concept stretch back to the early Reform Era, i. e. the late...
View ArticleWith Xi’s Help: a “clean and righteous science and research environment”
Main Link The party committee’s theory study center group at the Chinese Academy of Science Time Service Center held a collective study session for specific study of the newly revised “Regulations on...
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