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 Technology Review: What’s the leading search engine in China? If you said Google, you’re showing your Western bias. It’s actually Baidu.com, whose stock debuted on the Nasdaq exchange on August 5, raising some $87 million for the startup. Companies like Baidu are now riding a wave of investor expectations that Internet searching will become […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: The National Administration for Protection of State Secrets and the Ministry of Civil Affairs declared at a press conference on Monday that starting from August, the death toll from natural disasters would no longer be a State secret. This appears a step behind practice. Over the years, the public has become accustomed […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: President Hu Jintao told President George W. Bush on Tuesday that China was willing to work with the United States to ease a growing trade imbalance and acknowledged there were frictions in the economic relationship. “What I would like to stress here is that China does not pursue a huge trade surplus with […]
Read MoreFrom CNet News: A former Microsoft executive can immediately begin recruiting staff for a Google development center in China, rather than waiting until after a January trial, a Washington state judge ruled Tuesday. Microsoft had asked the King County Superior Court to extend a temporary order banning Kai-Fu Lee from starting the work he was […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: The commander of United States military forces in the Pacific and most of the Indian Ocean sounded a conciliatory note toward China on Sunday. He called for closer cooperation between the United States and Chinese militaries and an agreement about how to coordinate responses to natural disasters like the tsunami […]
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