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 Miami Herald: One of the most exciting developments in China is the rising awareness at the grass-roots level that ordinary people have legal rights. Chinese law has long been used as a tool to help the Communist Party control the people; call it rule by law, not rule of law. But the country’s […]
Read MoreFrom the Lawrence Berkeley Lab: After the United States, no nation has more potential to influence the world’s economy and environment than China, whose gross domestic product (GDP) quadrupled between 1980 and 2000, and whose economy is the world’s second largest consumer of oil. As it continues to grow, China is projected to increase oil […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: A blunt but nonconfrontational exchange this week between the United States and China suggested that a strategic dialogue that began between the two countries last month may succeed in easing tensions in a relationship that is frequently troubled. The strategic dialogue is intended to resolve longstanding differences between Beijing and […]
Read MoreAfter Reporters without Borders reported that Yahoo had provided the Chinese government with personal information about a customer, journalist Shi Tao, that led to his arrest, Jerry Yang, co-founder of Yahoo, told an Internet...
Read MoreFrom AP, via Seattlepi.com: So long, “MM,” “PK,” and “konglong.” The language police in Shanghai, China’s largest city, plan to ban those and other Chinese Internet slang terms from classrooms, official documents, and publications produced in the city, newspapers reported Friday. “On the Web, Internet slang is convenient and satisfying, but the mainstream media have […]
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