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 Independent (link): Yuan Baojing‘s remarkable rise from rural poverty to the head of a multi-billion-pound investment group ended with a lethal injection. The stock market whizzkid has been executed for hiring his brother and cousins to murder a policeman turned hitman turned blackmailer. It’s New China’s Scarface and Goodfellas, with a dash of […]
Read MoreFrom Forbes.com (link): It was around the time Google was making a censored foray into China that the search engine giant seemed to suddenly switch from being the darling of Wall Street to chief whipping boy. But if you’d been under the impression that Eric Schmidt and Google’s youthful founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian (link): Thirty years ago the posters on the Shanghai public transport system screamed Maoist slogans. For the past 10 years they have been hard-sell advertisements for cosmetic surgery clinics and cars. But from next month a more poetic tone will be struck by verses from Blake, Wordsworth, Michael Bullock and Kathleen Jamie. […]
Read MoreFrom The Age (link): Alexander Downer is in for a tough day. He sits down this morning for the first ministerial-level tripartite talks with the US and Japan. Top of the agenda is the complex and vital issue of the rise of China. And Downer will be in a minority of one against our major […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times (link): Chinese authorities on Friday unexpectedly withdrew the state secrets case against a Chinese researcher for The New York Times, a surprise decision that may clear the way for his release and comes a month before President Hu Jintao is scheduled to visit the United States. The researcher, Zhao Yan, […]
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