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 Telegraph: Hopes for warmer relations between China and the Dalai Lama have been raised by news that 200 Chinese nationals attended a prayer meeting in India with the exiled Tibetan ruler. Tibet’s government-in-exile, based in the Indian hilltown of Dharamsala, confirmed yesterday that China had issued a growing number of visas to ethnic […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Despite the country’s booming economy China’s urban poverty has worsened according to the China Youth Daily which quotes dozens of economists. The economists told the paper that the proportion of urban residents living in poverty is now higher than that of rural residents. The poverty rate in China’s cities is six to eight […]
Read MoreFrom Inter Press Service, via Asia Times: Three years ago, the Chinese capital unveiled its master plan for hosting the 2008 Olympics, with the city elders speaking of a commitment to hold the best Games ever. They promised an event taking place in spectacular venues spread across a green city and accessible by a new […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: This is a good, well-researched book. It could have been even better if the author, apparently carried away by the fascinating materials he displays in his narrative, had read his manuscript again and provided good, theoretical theses that would place his data in a broader perspective. Even so, US-China Cold War Collaboration, […]
Read MoreFrom the San Jose Mercury News: It’s easy to condemn Internet censorship in China. Yet it’s hard to come up with an appropriate response. Technology companies in the United States can’t afford to stay out of China, the world’s most populous nation and almost surely destined to soon become the world’s largest economy. At the […]
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