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David Cowhig 高大伟

@gaodawei.bsky.social

Retired US State Dept guy, worked 10 yrs in PRC (Beijing and Chengdu), good at reading 'communist Chinese' Qiushi etc., now studying ancient Chinese and literature. Enjoy studying languages. Ham call WA1LBP. Translation blog: gaodawei.wordpress.com

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03.03.2026 12:47 — 👍 2099    🔁 519    💬 15    📌 18
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'UNIMAGINABLE CRUELTY': Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointeee from NY, thrashes DHS' treatment of a man who came to the US at 9 as an abuse/neglect victim, has no criminal record and became a college grad.

"The laws of decency condemn such villainy." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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2025: PRC MOFA ‘Chronology of US-China Bilateral Relations’ via ChatGPT4o with Thoughts on Machine Translation Example of Unedited ChatGPT 4o Machine Translation Chronology of US – China Bilateral Relations from the website of the PRC Ministry of Foreign Affairs to February 2025 中国同美国的关系…

2025: PRC MOFA ‘Chronology of US-China Bilateral Relations’ via ChatGPT4o with Thoughts on Machine Translation
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2026: Xiaopa Silenced: A Single Critique Labeled as Opposition—A Woman’s Voice Should Not Be Silenced As elsewhere, social and legal norms made for especially strict controls on women in the PRC. China’s fertility planning –a better translation for the Chinese words ‘family planni…

2026: Xiaopa Silenced: A Single Critique Labeled as Opposition—A Woman’s Voice Should Not Be Silenced
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2026: Xiaopa Silenced: A Single Critique Labeled as Opposition—A Woman’s Voice Should Not Be Silenced As elsewhere, social and legal norms made for especially strict controls on women in the PRC. China's fertility planning --a better translation for the Chinese words 'family planning' jihua shengyu analogous to state economic planning not planning by autonomous couples. The state commands - Don't have too many children! Then in recent years policy whiplash --- Now you need to have more children!

2026: Xiaopa Silenced: A Single Critique Labeled as Opposition—A Woman’s Voice Should Not Be Silenced

As elsewhere, social and legal norms made for especially strict controls on women in the PRC. China's fertility planning --a better translation for the Chinese words 'family planning' jihua…

03.03.2026 02:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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ChatGPT - Iran Nuclear Inspections History Shared via ChatGPT

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02.03.2026 17:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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White House says it's "deeply unserious" to suggest Trump comments on judges may lead to threats. Here's what judges say. Federal judges who have ruled against the Trump administration say they have been targeted by violent threats.

Judges describe threats amid Trump's attacks on judiciary www.cbsnews.com/news/threats...

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The American Comedian Who Became a Funnyman in China

The American Comedian Who Became a Funnyman in China www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/a...

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Just remember what this is all for…. Distracting from the Epstein files

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Vibrant pink cherry blossom coming in to flower

Vibrant pink cherry blossom coming in to flower

Day 1339 of #IansDailyPhotoChallenge and a miserable, wet end to February
Lucky I found this stunning cherry blossom then isn't it? 🤗❤️🌸🍒 #inspiringnature #wildlife #naturephotography #MentalHealthMatters
#365DaysWild

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UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres: “Military action carries the risk of igniting a chain of events that no one can control in the most volatile region of the world"

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The President has launched our nation and our great military into a war of choice, risking American lives and resources, ignoring American law, and endangering our allies and partners. It does nothing to help with the urgent problems here at home that Americans face every day.

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2025: PRC Scholars on Sino-US Trump 2.0 AI Rivalry Related on this translation blog China and AI: 2024 NPC Lecture: AI and China — History, Prospects, Challenges, Strategies and Legislation 2021: PRC Foreign Ministry Spokesman AI Software&nbsp…

2025: PRC Scholars on Sino-US Trump 2.0 AI Rivalry 英文翻译:清华大学学者鲁传颖,才悦著《特朗普2.0时期中美人工智能博弈的新阶段》-- They see declining US competitiveness

gaodawei.wordpress.com/2026/02/28/2...

28.02.2026 06:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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2016: Party Explains Mao’s Respect for Rule by Law; ChatGPT, DeepSeek Explicate Jiang Qing quoted this saying of Mao to bolster her argument that the Gang of Four, sadly depleted from the Gang of Five after Mao died, was the real leadership of the Party before that awful …

2016: Party Explains Mao’s Respect for Rule by Law; ChatGPT, DeepSeek Explicate
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28.02.2026 04:49 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Understanding the State of the Corrupt Supreme Court Today Legal Realism in CrazyTown facing the chaos-monkey president: Reading the Roberts Court as a Trump‑era power machine as Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Roberts, and Barrett turn Trumpist chaos...

Understanding the State of the Corrupt Supreme Court Today
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27.02.2026 22:58 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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Pro-Trump lawyers push president to declare emergency to overhaul voting: reports Claims of Chinese election interference will propel a national emergency declaration to give Trump unprecedented power over voting, a new report says

www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

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What if a nation's legislature cedes its responsibilities to an executive? Sound familiar? In March of 1933 the Reichstag enacted a statute that gave the German cabinet, and as a result gave the new chancellor—a man named Hitler—emergency powers to override the Weimar Constitution.

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I regret to inform you that the Secretary of Defense is an idiot

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2026: Lithuania, Taiwan and the PRC — Case Study of the 2021 Sino-Lithuanian One China Dispute A study of the PRC attempt to strongarm Lithuania about the presence of a Taiwan representative office in the country. This article appeared in the February 2026 issue of the Norwegian language jou…

2026: Lithuania, Taiwan and the PRC -- Case Study of the 2021 Sino-Lithuanian One China Dispute
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27.02.2026 15:11 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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2026: Lithuania, Taiwan and the PRC — Case Study of the 2021 Sino-Lithuanian One China Dispute A study of the PRC attempt to strongarm Lithuania about the presence of a Taiwan representative office in the country. This article appeared in the February 2026 issue of the Norwegian language journal Internasjonal Politikk. Internasjonal Politikk is the leading Scandinavian-language journal in the field of international studies. The journal takes an open and broad approach to the field, focusing on what we study rather than how we study it.

2026: Lithuania, Taiwan and the PRC — Case Study of the 2021 Sino-Lithuanian One China Dispute

A study of the PRC attempt to strongarm Lithuania about the presence of a Taiwan representative office in the country. This article appeared in the February 2026 issue of the Norwegian language journal…

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Sociopaths are terrific at spotting other sociopaths.

{gift link} www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

26.02.2026 22:13 — 👍 8956    🔁 2861    💬 639    📌 182
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2023 Liu Mengxiong: The Problem Lies in the Economy, the Root Cause in Politics
英文翻译: 刘梦熊《问题在经济 根子在政治》
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27.02.2026 03:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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2023 Liu Mengxiong: The Problem Lies in the Economy, the Root Cause in Politics Liu Mengxiong's overview of economic and political problems confronting China translated below was discussed recently on the Chinese language side of the China Digital Times website. English-only readers (sino-illiterates?) may want to access Chinese language material on the CDT website using Google Translate. Once you set the page URL in Google Translate, it will automatically translated links in the article once you click on them.

2023 Liu Mengxiong: The Problem Lies in the Economy, the Root Cause in Politics

Liu Mengxiong's overview of economic and political problems confronting China translated below was discussed recently on the Chinese language side of the China Digital Times website. English-only readers…

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Another Measles Death Is Coming The number of measles cases in the U.S. is too high to avoid the disease’s worst outcomes for long.

The CDC is reporting 982 cases of measles; a tracker run by researchers at Johns Hopkins University has ticked past 1,000 already. By the numbers alone, the year's first measles death seems inevitable. @katherinejwu.com reports:

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CMC Heads Since 1949 ChatGPT helps you get answers, find inspiration, and be more productive.

Deng was leader the top leader but never Party secretary nor head of govt. But Deng did head the Party's Central Military Commission. CMC head is best leader defining characteristic. chatgpt.com/s/t_69a06627...

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Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period."

www.erininthemorning.com/cp/189255802

26.02.2026 15:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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When Chatbots Are Used to Plan Violence, Is There a Duty to Warn?

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/t...

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