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.
According to Will Hutton of the Observer, the ongoing 17th Party Congress is, globally, “the biggest political event of this autumn“. Yet, according to the Telegraph’s Richard Spencer, it is “important for the fact that it has been carefully choreographed to be as unimportant as possible”. Spencer writes:
Read MoreYomiuri Shimbun interviews author Zhou Qing, whose expose “What Kind of God: A Survey of the Current Safety of China’s Food” was nominated for the Lettres Ulysses Prize: Though I intended to ask for his opinion on freedom of speech in China, Zhou apparently thought I lacked a proper understanding of the situation in the […]
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Read MoreKQED’s Forum program is interviewing CDT’s Xiao Qiang and Sophie Richardson from Human Rights Watch about the ongoing Party Congress: This week, Chinese leaders are converging on Beijing for the Communist Party congress, held every five years. We look at the government’s ongoing efforts to control information as internet access expands and as the population […]
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