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 Washington Post: China on Monday reported that its foreign currency reserves swelled by more than one-third last year to a record $819 billion as its factories churned out goods for markets around the world, heightening the likelihood of fresh trade tensions with the United States. Coupled with news only days earlier that China’s […]
Read MoreFrom the Press Association, via the Guardian: An independent college today claimed to have become the first school in England to make Mandarin Chinese a compulsory subject for its pupils. Richard Cairns, the headmaster of Brighton College, said the move aims to recognise the importance of China as the world’s fastest growing economy. Mandarin will […]
Read MoreFrom The Age: As the United States shows signs of weakness – budget and current account deficits and an extended military – China is growing stronger. An important question arises: will China become a counterweight to the United States, in regional and perhaps even global politics? Henry Kissinger, an old China-watcher, once remarked that China […]
Read MoreFrom Voice of America: China’s state-owned news agency is downplaying the latest clash between villagers and police in the southern province of Guangdong over land compensation. Analysts say Chinese authorities are struggling to keep a tight lid on the growing number of increasingly violent rural protests. A four-day protest in Zhongshan City’s Sanjiao Township left […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: It is more than 7,000 miles from New York’s various corporate headquarters to the skyscrapers of Shanghai, but the workings of media companies like Time Warner and NBC Universal loom large in the mind of Li Ruigang. Mr. Li runs the Shanghai Media Group, a budding Chinese conglomerate with a […]
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