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 Wired: I’ve been blogging since January, criticizing despotism, corruption, ultranationalism, and the state-run media that disseminates propaganda packaged as news. I have posted more than 150 blog entries, many of them long essays, all of them written in Chinese. China will never be free unless people like me are willing to risk their own […]
Read MoreFrom the Age, via Asia Media: Necessarily, Liu’s strategy is not to “broadcast and be damned”. He makes sure Phoenix TV presents touchy news in a way that makes clear there is no challenge to the system. In between, it runs plenty of upbeat, feel-good features about China’s achievements and projects dear to central and […]
Read MoreFrom The Guardian: A senior Chinese official today insisted that the country has learned the lessons of the Sars outbreak and promised complete openness in its fight against bird flu. China was heavily criticised during the 2003 outbreak of Sars, or severe acute respiratory syndrome, for initially covering up the illness. Now Beijing says it […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: David Ji, a Chinese-American electronics entrepreneur, spent two months in custody enduring all-night interrogation sessions, but his stubbornness and occasional flashes of sarcasm infuriated his Chinese captors. So in late December last year, according to a person who compiled a record of the encounter, guards emptied his pockets, removed his […]
Read MoreFrom Spiegel Online: Looking from the imposing Potala Palace into the Lhasa River Valley, one glimpses a white bridge far in the distance. For the moment, it is empty. But soon, trains will be rolling across and into the brand new train station now under construction on the opposite bank. A whole new quarter of […]
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