David Cowhig 高大伟
@gaodawei
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
Yes， as Laozi said, the more stress there is in ruling by laws and decrees the more thieves and robbers there will be.
Trump comes up with several crazy things a day, the craziness rate keeps going up. This is an AI slop just like DOGE. When will it end? A lunatic with his finger on the nuke button. chatgpt.com/share/6a7277...
2026: Theory and Significance of China’s Unique Path to Modernization 英文翻译：学习时报 邹广文著《中国式现代化的学理建构与时代价值》 gaodawei.wordpress.com/2026/08/01/2...
Remembered -- working on an accelerationist translation from Chinese I queried ChatGPT about accelerationism and SF. chatgpt.com/c/6a6a5612-2... I'd add Arthur C. Clarke's novel Childhood’s End though there the singularity was stimulated evolution, I think the techbro singularity is often AI.
Translated, this warning from the Fuzhou University Campus Police: chatgpt.com/share/6a39d0...
Norwegian gov't bans AI in elementary education. Policy statement: www.regjeringen.no/no/aktuelt/k...
No Palantir in Sweden? Op-ed letter to the editor published in Dagens Nyheter, Sweden's leading newspaper. DeepL machine translation from Swedish.
PRC Marxist scholar Lei Yu wrote on the origins and development of the far right 'Accelerationist' ideology of some of the Silicon Valley tech bros. A high tech End Days fascist mish-mash? Translated at "2023: A PRC Marxist Critique of Accelerationism" gaodawei.wordpress.com/2026/04/17/2...
2026: Those Two Trap Tropes — the Phony ‘Thucydides’ one and the Origins of the ‘Tacitus Trap” 修昔底德陷阱与塔西佗陷阱:内外有别 gaodawei.wordpress.com/2026/05/21/2...
Dictionary of PRC 'mass incident' protests 1980-2020 in PDF format. "The Art of Maintaining Stability: A Brief Dictionary of Mass Incidents in China (1980–2020)" 维稳的艺术：特色中国群 体事件小辞典（1980-2020） s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/p-library/bo...
José Comessu's summary of Wang Huning's "The Logic of Politics" M-L to Mao Marxist text project led by Poltiburo #4. medium.com/@jscomessu/p... My own full draft translation is vy long; this summary helps! gaodawei.wordpress.com/2025/08/13/1...
The Unsinkable Feb 10—Mar 7, 2027 By Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig 高雅竹 Directed by Aya Ogawa pacnyc.org/whats-on/the...
Short video from @jungshiwang. Sun Zhongshan asks visitor "Is China united?" Enraged China not yet unified bc many support independence, flies to Taiwan bedroom of Taiwan President Lai, spanks him with staff, berating him for supporting Taiwan independence. #台独 #中国 #台湾
2026: Asking Grok about Xi Jinping Succession and Potential Successors gaodawei.wordpress.com/2026/03/13/2...
2025：Recent PRC Officialdom Novels gaodawei.wordpress.com/2025/01/26/2...
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》 gaodawei.wordpress.com/2026/02/26/2...
I asked an AI: The old saying to err is human -- does that apply to AIs as well? The answer: chatgpt.com/share/6997b4...
Saint Augustine in his Confessions Book XVIII, similar to yours bit a bit earlier.
Le Monde "In Minneapolis, the United States is facing an institutional spiral comparable to that of the Dreyfus affair." 'when the state refuses to admit its mistakes in order to protect itself, democracies can collapse.' www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
“中南海失踪了!" 2026: Taiwan Media on PRC Reaction to Venezuelan President’s Kidnapping — “Zhongnanhai is Missing!" gaodawei.wordpress.com/2026/01/30/2...
In Zhushan, Taiwan two neighborhood pet pigs resting in their apartment with a fan. They even have a sign on their home promising to bring wealth! 台灣南投縣竹山鎮---心愛的寵物豬休息。屋裡有電風扇！牠們的主人告訴我，他們的原主人不想要牠們，所以她收養了牠們。
1993 – 2016: (10) : Politics as a Science and an Art Chapter Ten of “The Logic of Politics” 王沪宁等著《政治的逻辑》 gaodawei.wordpress.com/2026/01/18/1... #China #PRC #Communism