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 New York Times: He was herding goats high up the creases of sacred Mount Kawagebo when the morning light seemed right, recalled Ananzhu, an ethnic Tibetan from an isolated village of southern China. So he took out his...
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: Judicial authorities in Beijing have shut down the law firm of a prominent civil rights lawyer after he refused to withdraw an open letter urging President Hu Jintao to respect freedom of religion and stop persecuting members of the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement. Gao Zhisheng, among the most daring of […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: The rise of a great power is never smooth or painless and China’s is no exception, as its economic strength and strategic ambition generate fear and uncertainty among its neighbors, along with profit and opportunity. Already the world’s third-ranked trading nation behind the United States and Germany, China is poised […]
Read MoreFrom Newsday: China’s huge population and rising standard of living have U.S. farmers hoping the Chinese will cross culinary lines and sample fare that’s a little more foreign to them. New York State Agricultural Commissioner Nathan Rudgers, in China last month to help market U.S. agricultural goods, said many of the country’s 1.3 billion people, […]
Read MoreFrom the Observer: China is simultaneously the world’s largest startup and the world’s largest turnaround. The country can draw on a 2,000-year tradition, but also on Western business know-how and technology – that is why it has been able to make progress so quickly. If you think about the last decade of China’s economic and […]
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