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 Mail and Guardian: Africa needs China. As in other parts of the developing world, China’s insatiable appetite for natural resources is creating unprecedented demand for commodities, pushing prices to new highs and fuelling economic growth across the continent. But China’s relations with Africa have stirred a polarised debate from Cape to Cairo. China […]
Read MoreFrom Fast Company: “Five years ago, the top-10 brands in China were American,” says Kevin Swanepoel, marketing and interactive director of the One Club, the international organization of advertising pros. “This year, the only American brand in the top 5 was Coke.” But brand-building is a slow game, and the creativity-quashing Cultural Revolution left the […]
Read MoreFrom Forbes.com: China has started drafting an energy law as part of efforts to meet the country’s energy demand in line with its rapid economic growth, the economic planning agency said. In a statement on its website, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said the State Council has formed a task force charged with […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: A majority of the world’s top chief executives plan to invest in China in the next three years to win customers in the world’s fastest-growing major economy, according to a survey issued Tuesday by PricewaterhouseCoopers. The survey, released at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, found that 55 percent […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times: Google on Wednesday came in for some harsh criticism from bloggers, outraged at its decision to set up a censored Chinese version of its website which will block results in order to avoid angering the country’s Communist government. The site will not provide Gmail or other services that will open up […]
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