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 is reporting that China is aiding a U.S. investigation into the steroid smuggling ring: The government said over the weekend that it was cooperating with the U.S. authorities, who last week announced the largest crackdown ever on steroid production facilities in the United States and other parts of the world. American […]
Read MoreOn his blog, Richard Spencer comments on a recent report that the rush to teach Mandarin in British schools hasn’t been as successful as hoped: If pupils are being (even) more disruptive because the classes are Chinese language ones, that suggests that either they are in full-scale revolt at doing something so difficult, in which […]
Read MoreThe BBC reports that Shanghai’s hosting of the Special Olympics this week may be a preview of things to come for the 2008 Olympics, if all goes well: On the days leading up to the opening ceremony, the entire area around Shanghai’s Olympic Stadium will be completely shut down to all traffic; a feat of […]
Read MoreVegetable vendors set up outside a factory in Haizhou, by Xie Xian he Luobote
Read MoreIn the Washington Post, John Pomfret reviews Fragile Superpower by Susan Shirk: At a time when much writing about China frothily presumes the unstoppable rise of a global titan, it is refreshing that a respected academic and former government official (Shirk was the deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asia during the second Clinton […]
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