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 International Herald Tribune: The current Russia-China joint military exercises are not so much a symbol of trust and friendship between the two as a symptom of American overstretch. The two are reminding the United States of the limits of its unilateral global power. The exercises are also a way for each country to […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post, via the San Francisco Chronicle: Police in China’s northern Shaanxi province have arrested one of the nation’s leading advocates of private property rights, after officials posed as journalists and forged an e-mail from a prominent Hong Kong reporter to lure him out of hiding, friends and relatives said. The arrest is […]
Read MoreFrom the Sydney Morning Herald: In a bland five-storey building on Beijing’s Baiguang Road, Chinese Government officials are peering closely at photographs of middle-aged Westerners, their eyes darting constantly across to another set of pictures, close-ups of tiny, spiky-haired Chinese babies. The Westerners are some of the 15,000 or so foreign couples and single would-be […]
Read MoreFrom Business Week: The Internet has become arguably the world’s most important medium for information gathering, communications, and commerce. And China is now an economic superpower. It’s no surprise to us at Standard & Poor’s that at some point these two developments would come together in an extremely palatable way, and earlier this month, I […]
Read MoreFrom Business Week: This summer, BusinessWeek brought together 13 of the smartest people we could find for an online roundtable on the past, present, and future of China and India (see below for a list of participants). On each of eight days, we posted a new question. Economics Editor Peter Coy moderated the discussion. The […]
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