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.
At a New York opening of the film Nanking, Wendi Murdoch, wife of media mogul Rupert, expressed her views on China today. From the New York Observer: Mega-mogul Rupert Murdoch’s wife, Wendi (n√©e Deng), is very proud of the progress her native China has made over the past few decades. “Economically, everybody is doing well; […]
Read MoreReuters and AP (via the International Herald Tribune) report on the fuel shortage currently hitting areas of China: The worst Chinese fuel crisis in two years spread to the capital and other inland areas Wednesday, even as the country’s top refiner pledged to guarantee supplies to a market crippled by the gap between state-set pump […]
Read MoreAmid reports of poisonous toys and tainted food products, the New York Times has a lengthy report on unregulated and often deadly drugs entering the world market from China: Pharmaceutical ingredients exported from China are often made by chemical companies that are neither certified nor inspected by Chinese drug regulators, The New York Times has […]
Read MoreRichard Spencer reflects on arguments that critics of China’s human rights record are just reacting to the country’s economic might: The rise of Chinese industry as manufacturing shuts down in the west, the bullishness of Asia, including its financial markets, while meltdown threatens everywhere else, the general rise of China while American and British indebtedness […]
Read MoreKaiser Kuo and Rebecca MacKinnon comment on the news that Facebook plans to launch a Chinese site later this year. From Ogilvy China Digital Watch: A report on China-cbn.com (the website of Diyi Caijing Ribao, in Chinese) cites an “industry insider” who says that Facebook plans to release additional language interfaces and intends to enter […]
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