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 AP, a new strategy to combat industrial pollution: China will bar companies that violate pollution rules from raising money through the stock market, a state newspaper said Wednesday, in a new effort to end widespread defiance of environmental standards. The government has been stepping up environmental enforcement following three decades of rapid growth that […]
Read MoreForbes writes about the growing competition between China and Japan over iron ore: Both nations have an acute need for the product. Indeed, it is China’s enormous appetite for iron ore (about 500 million tons a year or more) that has been the major factor behind the recent enormous price increases and profits in the […]
Read MoreA gardener in Shenzhen’s Splendid China theme park, by jurvetson
Read MoreArchitecture critic Hugh Pearman writes about the new buildings popping up in Beijing in preparation for the Olympics: Although Beijing is as big as you expect – a dauntingly gridlocked, teeming, dust-laden bigness –...
Read MoreWhat defines a “dissident” in China? Tim Johnson looks at the case of imprisoned activist Guo Feixiong: In Guangzhou, Guo and I chatted, along with my assistant, and he offered some details about his life in detention. But then I spelled out to Guo that I wanted to investigate prison labor, what products are made […]
Read More
Click on the image to download Firefly for circumvention
CDT is a non-profit media site, and we need your support. Your contribution will help us provide more translations, breaking news, and other content you love.
