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 Economist: China is not yet an auto-culture in the mould of the United States. But it may only be a matter of time “CHINA has begun to enter the age of mass car consumption. This is a great and historic advance.” So proclaimed the state-run news agency, Xinhua, last year. Environmentalists may feel […]
Read MoreFrom the Times: Across China traffic has been diverted, building work halted and tens of thousands of extra police have been deployed ” all to ensure that secondary school children get the peace and quiet they need for this year’s university entrance exams. This week more than 8.6 million teenagers will take their seats in […]
Read MoreFrom the Australasian Investment Review: There has been much speculation recently about supposed labour shortages in China, with some headlines declaring factories in the Guangdong province were experiencing a shortfall of as many as two million workers. ¬† However, economist Jim Walker at CLSA Asia Pacific Markets is less than convinced that this is actually […]
Read MoreFrom Red Herring: Facing fast-growing energy demand and desperate to wean itself off dirty coal, Beijing looks to the atom. But will it be enough? “China would need to build one new 1 gigawatt reactor every week in order to keep pace just with current energy demand growth.” -Jiang Lin, Lawrence Berkeley Labs
Read MoreFrom AP, via The Guardian: The Chinese authorities have ordered all weblogs and websites in the country to register with the government or face closure in Beijing’s latest attempt to control online dissent. Commercial...
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