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 Independent: Chinese diplomats in the Nepalese capital of Kathmandu are tracking down and trying to silence hundreds of Western climbers and Sherpas who witnessed the killing of Tibetan refugees on the Nangpa La mountain pass last week. This ominous development comes as fears grow for the safety of a group of Tibetan children, […]
Read MoreThe Financial Times reports on the latest “rich list” in China, which for the first time is this year topped by a woman: A female paper recycling entrepreneur worth an estimated $3.4bn has topped the latest list of mainland China’s richest people, marking the first time a woman has been ranked as the wealthiest person. […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: Millions of pints of blood are pumped through underground pipelines from a big developing country to wealthy consumers in the United States and elsewhere. The blood trade has produced the most spectacular boom in human history. In just five years, the formerly dirt-poor state at the heart of the haemo-business has become […]
Read MoreIn the International Herald Tribune, democracy activist Wei Jingsheng writes: Those who are concerned about the Chinese democracy movement should pay close attention to ongoing events in Taiwan, especially the popular anticorruption campaign that has emerged there in recent weeks. The very existence of Taiwan’s political and economic openness offers a sharp challenge to China’s […]
Read MoreWen Jiabao (L) with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on October 8, by Natalie Behring.
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