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 Dissent Magazine (link): Few Western academics would aspire to teach political theory in an authoritarian setting. Surely the free, uninhibited flow of discussion is crucial to our enterprise. When I tell my Western friends that I gave up a tenured, high-paying job in relatively free Hong Kong for a contractual post at Tsinghua University […]
Read MoreChristmas eve at Xujiahui Cathedral, Shanghai, by monkeyking
Read MoreFrom Foreign Policy, via A Glimpse of the World (link): For China today, the questions on everybody’s lips are: Can the People’s Republic survive so much change? Can China’s performance sustain its pace? What steps are needed next? Minxin Pei addresses the first two of these three questions, and his answers are not flattering. Actual […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times (link): The state-controlled Catholic Church in China installed a second bishop today over the objections of the Vatican, a move that could derail diplomatic efforts aimed at the re-establishing diplomatic relations between Beijing and the Holy See. The Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association, a group set up by Mao Zedong to […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times (link): Now China appears to want a trade deal that would allow it to sample – and perhaps help ultimately reproduce – Brazil’s success with alcool, as ethanol is called in Portuguese. With an economy booming at a 10% growth rate, transforming the world’s most populated country from a nation of peasants […]
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