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.
Today National Public Radio’s Talk of the Nation will broadcast a show about technology innovation in China: Once known as the capital of cheap knockoffs, China is cruising down the high-tech highway. And some say it could surpass the United States in technological innovation in the next decade. Listen to the story here.
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: Quantity does not automatically translate into quality in industrial performance, any more than in other realms, and China overall remains a poor and backward country, dependent on imported technology. Demographic trends, internal migration and uncontrolled urban development, plus megalomaniac, environmentally disastrous infrastructure projects, all threaten sound development. The scenario of […]
Read MoreFrom Business Week: China may have some of the world’s most active Internet police, who make sure its citizens don’t get out of line while they’re online. But Hu Zhiguang is out to prove that the blogosphere is nonetheless alive and thriving in China. Hu, a wiry 27-year-old with a soul patch of a beard […]
Read MoreChinese authorities often uses “state secrets” charges to arrest government critics and others who write or talk about sensitive political subjects, including journalists Zhao Yan and Shi Tao. Yet the government has...
Read MoreFrom AP, via Salon: China’s growing thirst for oil will place a greater strain on the world’s top supplier, Saudi Arabia, at the very time doubts are being raised about the kingdom’s ability to substantially increase production. Should output falter in Saudi Arabia and other Middle East nations, some analysts warn of growing tension — […]
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