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 Financial Times, a look at another implication of China’s recent involvement in Africa: The International Monetary Fund warned on Thursday that China’s emergence as an alternative lender was creating a new wave of hidden debt in Africa as it backed its companies’ expansion overseas with increasingly aggressive lending. Adnan Mazarei, a director at […]
Read MoreFrom The American Prospect: After the economist Nicholas Lardy visited China in the mid-1980s, he came away distinctly skeptical. While Chinese leaders were gearing up for a huge export drive, Lardy predicted “a marked slowing in China’s trade expansion in the years ahead.” In particular he questioned Beijing’s reported plan to boost total Chinese trade […]
Read MoreProtester making a last stand on a soon to be demolished home in Shanghai, by monkeyking
Read MoreProtester making a last stand on a soon to be demolished home in Shanghai, by monkeyking
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post, an update on the case of the Uighur men being detained at Guantanamo Bay: Attorneys for a group of Chinese Muslims held for nearly five years in the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, filed suit yesterday, asking that the men be released immediately and alleging that they have been […]
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