Sophie Beach
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 Shanxi Officials In The Eye Of The Storm РMa Changbo (马昌博）
Southern Weekend has continued coverage of the Shanxi brick kiln case by interviewing several officials in Hongdong County about their role in the incident. ESWN translated the article (original Chinese here): The Southern Weekend reporter interviewed a large number of Shanxi government officials at various levels and went into a previously unexplored subject area about […]
Read MoreHeavy Metals and Trial Lawyers
The Chinese government recently announced that nearly one-fifth of food and consumer products distributed domestically are unsafe. Meanwhile, the foreign media continues to focus on the safety of Chinese exports. The Foreign Policy blog presents a chart of statistics on China’s agricultural exports to the U.S., and crop pollution within China. The same blog links […]
Read MoreWho’s Responsible for Darfur?
The Sudanese government has agreed to allow a joint U.N. – African Union peacekeeping force into the war torn region of Darfur, and the Chinese government is taking the credit for this development. According to Reuters, Beijing’s envoy on Darfur, Liu Guijin, told reporters, “I can say with certainty that this was inseparable from the […]
Read MoreSuicide Official Expelled from the Party – Josie Liu
The Communist Party has decided to expel Tianjin official Song Pingshun, nearly a month after he committed suicide. From China in Transition blog: Corruptions of Mr. Song were confirmed by the disciplinary commission of the Party, including keeping mistress and abusing his power to gain illegitimate benefits for his mistress, Xinhua reported. He committed suicide […]
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