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 Guardian: To engage with China requires Japan to come to terms with its past, and Koizumi’s visits to the shrine represent a symbolic refusal to do so. Japan is stuck in its past, and its past now threatens to define its future and that of east Asia. Even during the postwar period, when […]
Read MoreFrom the Australian: The question at hand is simple and profound: will China rise peacefully? My answer is no. If China continues its impressive economic growth over the next few decades, the US and China are likely to engage in an intense security competition with considerable potential for war. Most of China’s neighbours, to include […]
Read MoreFrom the AP, via the Washington Post: A typical Chinese Internet user is a young male who prefers instant messaging to e-mail, rarely makes online purchases and favors news, music and games sites, according to a new study. The only major public opinion research tracking Internet use in China, the survey was conducted in five […]
Read MoreFrom CRI, via China Daily: “Blogger Matters” focuses on one Chinese blogger per feature, putting his/her posts in English for you and aiming to give you a heads up on what’s going on in the Chinese blog-sphere. Like many other literary men, Leizi (see sidenote 1) likes to read Sanlian Life Week (see sidenote 2). […]
Read MoreNational Public Radio’s Talk of the Nation interviews Rob Gifford: For six years Rob Gifford covered China for NPR News. From Beijing to the North Korean border to the Muslim Northwest, Gifford reported on stories of people living through an extraordinary economic and cultural transformation. The audio link will be available later today. Listen also […]
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