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.
Asia Times reports on the consequences of China’s aggressive investment in some of the world’s most unsavory regimes: Where Western companies fear to tread because of small profit margins or environmental or political concerns, the Chinese have plunged in. China’s state-owned companies have the ability to put short-term profit aside and focus on the government’s […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: With 70 million members, China’s ruling Communist Party is bigger than most nations. Yet when its Central Committee meets on Sunday a handful of leaders will spell out the country’s political agenda in tightly guarded secrecy. The plenum of some 350 senior officials will mark a big step in party General Secretary Hu […]
Read MoreFrom Time Asia: Like many of the oracular pronouncements of China’s Communist Party, the arrest last week of Shanghai Party boss Chen Liangyu had multiple meanings. On one level, the purge of a prominent Politburo member”over allegations that Chen allowed associates to milk Shanghai’s pension accounts to fund investments in the city’s booming real estate”was […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: For many Chinese, an ancestor is someone to honor, but also someone whose needs must be maintained. Families burn offerings of fake money or paper models of luxury cars in case an ancestor might need pocket change or a stylish ride in the netherworld. But here in the parched canyons […]
Read MoreFrom ITV: China has called for restraint after North Korea announced it is planning to test a nuclear bomb, a move the US said would threaten world peace. (Picture: Reuters) “We hope that North Korea will exercise necessary calm and restraint over the nuclear test issue,” China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said. Mr Liu […]
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