Author: Sophie Beach

Sophie Beach lives in Berkeley, California. She previously served as senior research associate for Asia at the Committee to Protect Journalists, a New York-based press freedom organization. She received her master's degree from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. Her writing about China has been published in the Los Angeles Times, the Asian Wall Street Journal, the South China Morning Post, The Nation magazine, and other publications.

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Xi Jinping to Visit White House & Watch Basketball in U.S.

Vice President Xi Jinping, who is slated to take over the helm of the Party from Hu Jintao later this year, will visit the U.S. next week. His visit comes as tensions with the U.S. are heightened over a number of issues: China’s veto of a U.S. Security Council resolution calling on Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad

February 9, 2012 6:53 PM

Chinese Fascism’s Global Consequences

For Truth Out, a Canadian living and teaching at a university in China argues that China currently should be defined as a “fascist” state. The author uses the pseudonym Roland Farris:There was a time when China was referred to as a society which was Communist or Post-Communist; today, the terms Authoritarian

February 8, 2012 3:16 PM

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