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 Bloomberg: Yahoo! Inc., the most-visited Web site, had to pass documents to the Chinese government that led to the conviction of a local journalist because the company must follow local laws, co-founder Jerry Yang said… “The government asked for the documents and backed it up with a court order,” said Yang, who was speaking […]
Read MoreIn the Guardian, Martin Jacques reviews “The Changing Face of China: From Mao to Market” by John Gittings: Gittings is one of that rare breed of journalists who has maintained a specialist interest in his subject for so long and with such thoroughness that he commands the respect of academic specialists and journalists alike. In […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: They may be as much a symbol of Mexico as sombreros and cacti, but chillies in the country are starting to lose some of their national flavour in favour of a Chinese tang. Farmers in Mexico are complaining that cheap imported varieties from China now represent nearly half national production of dehydrated […]
Read MoreFrom OpenDemocracy.net: A healthy open society demands the free flow of information within and across its national boundaries. When internet use began to take off in China, it became a clich√© in the west to announce that it would prove the catalyst for real political and social change: the internet, the argument went, could not […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: A week before Chinese President Hu Jintao’s scheduled meeting with US President George W Bush (later canceled due to Hurricane Katrina), on the fringes of the United Nations summit in New York, Washington warned Beijing that the two countries would be on a collision course if China continues to pursue energy deals […]
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