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.
The International Herald Tribune reports on negotiations between U.S. and Chinese officials over import standards: The discussions have apparently not been easy. As concern about the safety of Chinese products rose this year, U.S. negotiators said they found that the Chinese raised concerns of their own and began imposing new safety restrictions on food and […]
Read MoreFrom the China Media Project: In an article earlier this week, Nick Young explained the circumstances surrounding the shutdown this summer of his non-profit journal, the China Development Brief. Based on Chinese journalist Zhai Minglei’s account of the closure of the civil society journal Minjian, both publications seem to have been the victims of a […]
Read MoreThe Los Angeles Times profiles Edwin Maher, an Australian reporter now reading the news on CCTV: Maher is the first non-Chinese news anchor for state television’s English-language station, CCTV International. He speaks almost no Mandarin, but that’s of little concern to his bosses. He was hired in 2003 as the station introduced a Western face […]
Read MoreA reporter for ABC News travelled down the Yangtze and told his story in a news report, blog entries and video: When I told him I had come to China to see how people felt about their rapid economic change and growing power in the world, Yu just shook his head and laughed. China was […]
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