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.

China’s media pendulum swings again – James F. Paradise

On AsiaMedia, James F. Paradise reviews the latest volume of China’s Media & Entertainment Law: One way the Chinese government has attempted to control the media and entertainment industries has been through media and entertainment law. The laws — and all the other rules and regulations by which the media environment is shaped — state […]

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Made in China – Jagdish Bhagwati

Economist Jagdish Bhagwati reviews The Writing on the Wall by Will Hutton in the New York Times: Is China now poised to turn the 21st century into its century? Or will it, despite its phenomenal nearly two-digit annual growth over the past 15 years, rejoin the human race with a slower economy? Or is it […]

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Patron of African Mismanagement – New York Times editorial

The New York Times editorial page weighs in on China’s expanding, but controversial, role in Africa: Beijing’s huge purchases of oil and other resources have made it the continent’s third-largest trading partner. Its callous yuan diplomacy is a growing problem for some of Africa’s worst-off people. China’s oil appetite has drawn it into an ugly […]

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