Sophie Beach is CDT's Operations and Communications Manager. From 2003-2021, she served as Executive Editor of CDT English. She lives in Berkeley, California.
From the Financial Times: When PetroChina listed its shares in Shanghai last November, the headline around the world was that PetroChina had a market capitalisation of more than $1,000bn – making it the planet’s most valuable...
Read MoreWhile the official media is busy heralding the coming Olympics Games, some other voices offer a different perspective on the event. The following is from Kang Guoping’s blog, translated by CDT (Thanks to Japhet Weeks for...
Read MoreHoward French reports in the International Herald Tribune about the political implications of the snow crisis: It would not be an exaggeration to say that China’s big snowstorm has revealed an embarrassing crisis of, well,...
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Soaring energy and raw material costs, a falling dollar and new business rules here are forcing Chinese factories to increase the prices of their exports, according to analysts and Western companies...
Read MoreThe Economist reports on China’s rapid Internet growth and the unique habits of Internet users there: That such a big, increasingly wealthy and technologically adept country has embraced the internet is no surprise, but it...
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