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 ABC News: China is home to the world’s last great Communist regime. Time and again since it came to power in 1949, the Communist Party has shown how ruthless it can be in maintaining its rule. Be it the purges of the 1950s, the massacre of civilians in Beijing in1989, the ongoing detention of […]
Read MoreFrom the Baltimore Sun: China’s economic ascent – the most sweeping and rapid march to industrialization in world history – has much of the rest of the globe and particularly Americans reeling backwards in, shall we say, shock and awe. Even many who long have believed that the 21st Century could be China’s suddenly find […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: Three members of the Bush cabinet will be in Beijing for trade talks tomorrow, one day after a visit there today by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Some of the issues that come up will be genuinely difficult: for example, how to reconcile the U.S. interest in protecting the intellectual property […]
Read MoreFrom the Chicago Tribune: Congress and columnists are in a predictable tizzy over the news that CNOOC, a state-owned Chinese oil company, had put in an $18.5 billion bid for Unocal, a U.S. oil company… There are several things to be said about all this, none of it good news for Americans who thought we […]
Read MoreFrom the San Francisco Chronicle: This is the new Chinese Dream: cars and suburbs. Like the American counterpart, it is good news for many people — but perhaps bad news for Planet Earth. The same economic boom that is catapulting millions of Chinese each year into the middle class has made their country the world’s […]
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