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 Los Angeles Times: On Tuesday, a government spokesman in Beijing said Chinese President Hu Jintao was meeting with a “foreign leader” during the day but said it wasn’t necessarily Kim. When asked to confirm Kim was in China, spokesman Kong Quan said he had “not received any authorized information to provide at present.” […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: A prominent Chinese lawyer and collector unveiled an old map on Monday that he and some supporters say should topple one of the central tenets of Western civilization: that Europeans were the first to sail around the world and discover America. The Chinese map, which was drawn in 1763 but […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: China’s fight against the avian/human pandemic influenza is facing a relatively big financial gap, said China’s Chief Veterinary Jia Youling here Tuesday. Jia made the remarks at a conference in Beijing aimed to collect global financial resources to stop the disease from further spreading among birds and from birds to humans. As one […]
Read MoreFrom the BBC: As Washington, now joined by the EU3, presses for punitive international action against Tehran, one of its most difficult tasks will be to win China’s support. The first step is to persuade China to agree to support – or not to block – an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) referral of Iran […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: Lawyers for a group of Chinese nationals held in the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, with no hope of release are taking the rare step of asking the Supreme Court to intervene immediately, saying only the high court can resolve the constitutional crisis their case presents. Attorneys for the […]
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