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Kong Lingping’s Rightist Memoir: An Overview China in the 1950s, after nearly twenty years of foreign invasion and civil war, deserved a rest. However, in that decade, political, ideological, and social revolutions—often implemented bloodily …

Kong Lingping’s Rightist Memoir: An Overview
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1957: Mao’s “Open Plot” to Entrap Dissidents to Set Stage for the Anti-Rightist Campaign While some say that Mao Zedong was completely sincere in encouraging criticism of the Communist Party during the Hundred Flowers Campaign, Mao himself said at the time that this campaign was &#8220…

1957: Mao’s “Open Plot” to Entrap Dissidents to Set Stage for the Anti-Rightist Campaign
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Depuis le début de la guerre en Iran, la cote de confiance d’Emmanuel Macron a progressé de six points

Dans ce contexte de crise internationale, un quart (25%) des Français déclarent lui faire confiance pour affronter efficacement les problèmes qui se posent au pays, soit une hausse de neuf points en deux mois.

Rightist Memoir VIII: The Great Famine Previous installment: Rightist Memoir VII: The Death Valley of Xixika Section Three  A Dark Summer Translation of Yang Jisheng’s Tombstone, a history of the 1959 – 62 Chinese policy-dri…

From Kong Lingping's account of his 20-plus years in PRC labor camps --
Rightist Memoir VIII: The Great Famine
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2022: Wang Jisi: Has the U.S. Really Declined? Chinese Need to Have a Clear Understanding About This Has the U.S. Really Declined? Chinese Need to Have a Clear Understanding About This May 14, 2022 | Source: Culture Vertical | Reads: 644 王缉思: 美国到底有没有衰落? 中国人应有清醒认识 Keywords: Belt and Road Global Gov…

Has the U.S. Really Declined? Chinese Need to Have a Clear Understanding About This
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🇺🇸🇮🇷 Un sous-marin américain a coulé mardi un navire de guerre iranien dans l'océan Indien, a annoncé mercredi le ministre américain de la Défense, Pete Hegseth, après que la marine sri-lankaise a annoncé le naufrage au large de ses côtes de la frégate iranienne Dena ⤵️

Iran is fighting a Techno-Guerrilla War, as the US and Israel fight a Conventional One Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - As the Israeli-American-Iran War of 2026 enters its fifth day, it becomes clear that Israel and the US are fighting a conventional air war. Iran, in contrast, is figh...

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This federal judge ruled against Trump. Then the death threats rolled in | 60 Minutes YouTube video by 60 Minutes

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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...

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…

ChatGPT - Iran Nuclear Inspections History Shared via ChatGPT

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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.

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The American Comedian Who Became a Funnyman in China

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

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
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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"

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.

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

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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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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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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

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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.

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

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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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…

Sociopaths are terrific at spotting other sociopaths.

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