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 an editorial by the Standard: Volkswagen announced last week that it would develop its first gasoline- electric hybrid vehicle – a minivan. More intriguing was the announcement that it is being developed in China for...
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: Road construction has become ubiquitous throughout the west, from steamy tropics to snow-capped mountains to arid deserts. It seems as if everywhere one goes, there is a bypass, a road under construction, and workers in orange waistcoats pitching their tents by the roadside. Some of the results are impressive. The Erlanshan tunnel, […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: A study earlier this year by a group of scholars called the OpenNet Initiative revealed what no one had thought possible: that the Chinese government is succeeding in censoring the net. Its most powerful tool is its control of the routers – the devices through which data is moved from one place […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: China’s tycoons have joined the global jet set, according to Boeing, which said yesterday that it has sold its first private business plane in the world’s most populous nation… With an economy growing at around 9% a year, Boeing said it expects more sales of the BBJ. Other brands are also positioning […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via the Boston Globe: The new head of Washington’s anti-piracy drive has made China his first official overseas destination to drive home the point that the mainland is the main culprit in the huge business of counterfeit products… Washington says about 70 percent of the counterfeit products that enter the United States are […]
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