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 NPR.org: If you think the costs of war in Iraq and recovery from Hurricane Katrina will force President Bush to raise taxes, think again. No matter how high the price may go for rebuilding the Gulf Coast while staying the course in the Persian Gulf, this White House will not choose the revenue option… […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: A “people’s war” on narcotics in China has turned into a campaign against designer drugs after police found a surge in usage of ecstasy, ketamine and methamphetamine, or ice, among urban professionals. In a shift that may be down to a booming economy and the growing influence of globalised culture, Chinese authorities […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via The Star: China on Thursday published the death toll from this year’s natural disasters, until this month considered a state secret, but showed the limit of its new-found transparency by keeping details of past calamities under wraps. .. “As for the three-year famine in China, we do not have the specific information […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via The Star: Prolific and controversial Taiwan author Li Ao riled China on Wednesday by giving millions of Internet surfers and television viewers a taste of the self-ruled island’s freewheeling democracy. Li championed freedom of speech and took repeated swipes at the Communist Party in a no-holds-barred question-and-answer session at Peking University televised […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via Wired.com: U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick told China on Wednesday it should take concrete steps to assure the world it will use its power responsibly and said Beijing’s approach to Iran would prove its seriousness on combating nuclear proliferation. The “essential question” for the United States and the world was […]
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