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.
From the Washington Post, a report on corruption in the logging industry which is allowing Chinese firms to deforest land from Siberia to Papua New Guinea to the Amazon, in order to make furniture and other goods for American and European consumers: Some of the largest swaths of natural forest left on the planet are […]
Read MoreFrom the Los Angeles Times: The standoff in central China’s Chongqing municipality is nothing new. Government-backed development projects have been eating up private homes across the country, creating a wave of resistance as millions of residents are uprooted, with many complaining of unfair compensation or forced removal. But since the National People’s Congress passed landmark […]
Read MoreFrom Spiegel Online: The Dalai Lama makes such public appearances once or twice a month. The aim is to provide everyone who comes from Tibet the opportunity to be able to see him. He seems cheerful and relaxed — and doesn’t give the impression of a man whose time is running out. But he also […]
Read MoreThree Gorges Probe has compiled and translated news relating to China’s rivers from the recent NPC/CPPCC meetings: Cai Qihua, director of the Changjiang (Yangtze) Water Resources Commission and a delegate to the National People’s Congress, has called on the government to pay more attention to the safety of areas below the Three Gorges dam, and […]
Read MoreA man covers his mouth as he crosses a street in Linfen, Shanxi, by Natalie Behring
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