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 Christian Science Monitor has an editorial about cross-Straits relations: Small, democratic Taiwan expects volleys of verbal fireworks against it next week when China’s Communist Party meets in a congress held every five years. The new threats wouldn’t be worth much notice – if China wasn’t also revving up its war machine against Taiwan. China’s […]
Read MoreIn the New York Times, Roger Cohen argues that China’s inaction in Burma is only hurting prospects for the country’s rise: Hu’s harmony is mostly hogwash. But who cares? The global thirst for China’s business, and for alternative power centers to Washington, has given the slogan a free ride. China is not in the business […]
Read MoreA man and a cat in an alley in Beijing, by a bout de souffle
Read MoreOn China Media Project, Qian Gang gives a rundown of who is worth interviewing for journalists covering the 17th Party Congress: Top party leaders will of course be at the top of your interview wish list this month. But no one, least of all officials in the upper echelons, will agree to an interview ahead […]
Read MoreIn The Nation, Jeffery Wasserstrom writes: I’m distressed by the tendency of so many Americans to assume that everything that goes on in China and everything about the treatment it gets is exotic and unusual. Often things that happen in or involve China are normal–even routine–and we can understand them without factoring in esoteric cultural […]
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