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 Project Syndicate (link): As Hu Jintao, China’s Communist Party Secretary General and President, prepares to visit the US on April 20, myriad unresolved issues are disturbing Sino-US relations. Debates rage over the bilateral trade balance and revaluation of the renminbi, the status of Taiwan and Tibet, human rights violations, and intellectual property theft. China’s […]
Read MoreFrom The Economist (link): “DO YOU know how serious a mistake you’ve made?” Yan Yuanzhang recalls an official asking him not long ago. Mr Yan had been summoned to Beijing’s Internet Propaganda Management Office to talk about his websites. They were causing, he was told, the Communist Party to lose face. They were providing material […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times (link): For as long as anyone can remember, Anyie Apoui and his people have lived among the majestic trees and churning rivers in an untouched corner of Borneo, catching fish and wild game, cultivating rice and making do without roads. But all that is about to change. The Indonesian government […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via CNN (link): The digital divide is narrowing as citizens in emerging markets get online via computers and mobile phones, with some regions now on a par with developed nations, a ranking of Web-savvy nations showed on Wednesday… Within China and India, regions such as Shanghai and Bangalore have almost the same level […]
Read MoreFrom The Australian (Iink): The Howard Government has been in the fortunate position of riding the great China boom. The China boom has made it easier during the past decade for policymakers in Australia to pat themselves on the back about what a great job they have done in managing the economy: delivering budget surpluses, […]
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