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contradiction / CL: 個|个 / conflicting views / contradictory
HSK 5
support / backing
HSK 7-9
to contradict oneself / self-contradictory / inconsistent
HSK 7-9
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  *盾* | 盾* | *盾
shield / (currency) Vietnamese dong / currency unit of several countries (Indonesian rupiah, Dutch gulden etc)
USB key used as a security token in Chinese online banking
to crowdsource information about sb or sth (typically as a form of vigilantism resulting in doxing) (abbr. for 人肉搜索) / human (used attributively, as in 人肉盾牌, human shield)
Mao Dun (1896-1981), Chinese novelist
shield / pretext / excuse
Silkworms in Spring (1933), Chinese silent movie in socialist realist style, based on novel by Mao Dun 茅盾
Tan Dun (1957-) Chinese composer
Vietnamese dong (currency)
Scutum (constellation)
tunnel boring machine
internal contradiction
Golden Shield Project, information system for censorship and surveillance, thought to include the Great Firewall of China 防火長城|防火长城 as a component
human shield
contradictions between ourselves and the enemy / Either you are for us or against us.
Mao Dun Literature Prize, PRC prize for novel writing, awarded since 1982
internal contradiction among the people (pretext for a purge)
lit. use sb's spear to attack his shield (idiom, derived from Han Feizi 韓非子|韩非子); turning a weapon against its owner / fig. to attack an opponent using his own devices / hoist with his own petard
Indonesian rupiah
Aegis Combat System (weapons system developed for the US Navy)
human shield / (gaming) tank; meat shield
Dutch gulden
riot shield
tensions between mainland China and Hong Kong (since 1997)
to be at loggerheads / to have a falling out


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