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 (link): WHEN Hu Jintao arrives in Washington this month for his first visit as China’s president, the two sides will already have come to an understanding on one of the most difficult issues. Not over trade or nuclear proliferation but on the protocol of what to call Mr. Hu’s visit. […]
Read MoreFrom Pakistan’s The Daily Times (link): China is about to adopt its 11th five-year plan, setting the stage for the continuation of probably the most remarkable economic transformation in history, while improving the well-being of almost a quarter of the world’s population. Never before has the world seen such sustained growth; never before has there […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times (link): They all journeyed to America on the Golden Venture, a rusty freighter crammed with 286 Chinese immigrants when it ran aground off Queens on the night of June 6, 1993. But a father of three who was seeking asylum from China’s one-child policy was deported back and forcibly sterilized. […]
Read MoreFrom Newsweek.com (link): I don’t know what I expected. Maybe a white room with a waiting area where I could sip tea while someone serviced my ThinkPad. What I didn’t expect was a small apartment reminiscent of my freshman dorm filled with chain-smoking Chinese men. The tables were strewn with a Frankenstein’s workshop worth of […]
Read MoreAn old woman carries wood in Liannan, Guangdong Province, via photo.xitek.com.
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