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 Sunday Telegraph: The Chinese government has failed to provide global health agencies with vital information on recent bird flu outbreaks – caused by a lethal mutating virus that experts say could rapidly spread around the world and potentially kill tens of millions of people. Three outbreaks of avian flu have affected western China […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: A revealing book has just been published about a closed and secretive East Asian country that devotes a huge portion of its budget to developing nuclear weapons, even as millions of its people starve to death… Readers should be forgiven for guessing that the book in question concerns North Korea, […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Oil is the ultimate geopolitical commodity – it is “The Prize,” as Daniel Yergin titled his epic history of petroleum and international politics. And even if Cnooc fails to grab Unocal, the pursuit has pushed the two sides of the Chinese challenge together and into the spotlight of public debate. […]
Read MoreFrom the AP, via the Columbia Daily Tribune: Farmers had long feared the runoff from the pharmaceutical factory. It turned irrigation water to a greasy, red sludge and stunted vegetable crops. They blamed it for a local rise in cancer and birth defects. When a drought concentrated pollutants such as never before, they turned to […]
Read MoreFrom the Toronto Star: Buzz over China is everywhere: just as the Financial Times recently produced a weekend supplement on “China hype,” Time magazine ran a cover story with Mao Zedong dressed in Gucci. While Chinese companies stalk North American assets like Noranda or Unocal, financial newsletters promise untold riches through the China boom. Once […]
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