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 New York Times: All this underscores, I think, that China is not the police state that its leaders sometimes would like it to be; the Communist Party’s monopoly on information is crumbling, and its monopoly on power will follow. The Internet is chipping away relentlessly at the Party, for even 30,000 censors can’t […]
Read MoreFrom the BBC: One of the worst of the countless conflicts that has blighted Africa in recent times is that of Angola. But a peace deal signed four years ago – and huge oil reserves – are now giving the Angolans hope as the country tries to rebuild its devastated infrastructure. Recently China, scouring the […]
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: A Russian and Chinese-led bloc of Asian states has said it plans to set up an expert group to boost computer security and help guard against threats to their regimes from the internet. Suggesting the new group might tackle censorship, the six-nation Shanghai Co-operation Organisation said […]
Read MoreFrom the BBC: According to World Health Organisation statistics, China is the only country in the world where more women commit suicide than men. Every year, 1.5 million women attempt to take their own lives, and a further 150,000 succeed in doing so. The problem is worse in rural areas, where the suicide rate is […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Vietnam’s leaders have made plain they want the United States on their side for equilibrium against China, a longtime occupier. Vietnam, though an ideological ally of Beijing, fears an expanding Chinese sphere of influence and being reduced to an economic appendage by China, its northern neighbor. It has fought wars […]
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