Sophie Beach
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.
Juliana Liu: Kin of dead China protesters vow to find killers
From Reuters, via sandiego.com Saturday’s showdown at Shengyou, 220 km (140 miles) southwest of Beijing in Hebei province, was first reported in the Beijing News, rare coverage for one of a growing number of disputes over land rights in China, where the government places an overriding emphasis on the need for social stability. Protests take […]
Read MoreFrederik Balfour and Brian Bremner: Too Many Factories?
From Business Week: …Even as China’s leadership breathes a sigh of relief, the outsize profits of recent years appear to be history, given all the new plants being built. Gluts are emerging in steel, cement, autos, chips, and petrochemicals, dimming the outlook for earnings. In the first four months of 2004, profits at China’s industrial […]
Read MoreMark Magnier and Joseph Menn: As China Censors the Internet, Money Talks
From the Los Angeles Times (free registration required): The current debate raises questions about whether multinational companies have a duty to help promote political freedoms in a world where their power and global standing rival many governments’. Previous debates over corporate conduct have focused on environmental issues, fair wages and working conditions. If international companies […]
Read MoreIOL: Beijing to hire thousands more Web police
From the Independent Online: Public security officials in Beijing are recruiting and training nearly 4 000 Internet police to monitor activities at Internet cafes and related companies, state media said on Thursday. Eight hundred “Internet security officers” will be sent to the city’s Internet cafes and 3 000 to other Internet-related businesses, the Beijing News […]
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