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 Australian: China’s rise is glamorous and generally welcome for Australia. Chinese civilisation is respected for its longevity, arts and ancient yet enduring philosophies. After China’s troubles from the Opium War in the mid-19th century to the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, many Chinese and non-Chinese feel China finally deserves a place at the […]
Read MoreFrom an editorial in the Washington Post: Though Shi Tao’s “crime” would not have been considered illegal in America, an American company was directly responsible for his conviction… This is not merely an abstract business ethics issue: Yahoo’s behavior in China could have real consequences for U.S. foreign policy. Over the past two decades, many […]
Read MoreFrom CNet News: When “Star Wars: Episode III–Revenge of the Sith” opened in U.S. theaters, copies again hit the streets of Beijing within days. Sold out of bicycle baskets by roving vendors, available in mom-and-pop retail stores everywhere, the counterfeit DVDs retailed for about 75 cents each. For movie executives, those DVDs drove home the […]
Read MoreIn the New York Times, Tina Rosenberg writes: It was the force of capitalist profits, not Communist law, that compelled Yahoo to hand over Shi Tao and its unapologetic response seems devised to ingratiate Yahoo further with...
Read MoreFrom the Jamestown Foundation’s China Brief: Liu Yazhou, a 53 year-old PLA general, erstwhile novelist, and rising political star, has published a series of frequent and provocative essays in China over the last few years to considerable acclaim”and controversy. In a regime where political expression is strictly limited, and where discussion of political issues may […]
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