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 Bloomberg: China `strongly opposes’ a European Union plan to impose caps on Chinese exports of T-shirts and flax yarn, the Ministry of Commerce said, adding that the group is sending wrong signals of trade protectionism with the move. The EU used initial numbers of the Chinese exports from the first three months and initiated […]
Read MoreFrom the Independent Online: Chinese-run websites have until the end of May to register their sites or face being shut down as part of a new government campaign to police the Internet, a leading portal announced on Saturday. The registration drive is an effort by the Ministry of Information Industry to clamp down on fraud […]
Read MoreBelow is an article I wrote for Dangerous Assignments, the magazine of the Committee to Protect Journalists: ____________ The Rise of Rights? In Guangzhou case, weiquan advocates find success is tempered by harsh reality. Sun...
Read MoreFrom Reuters: A group of U.S. lawmakers banded together on Friday to focus congressional attention on how China’s rise affects the United States in areas ranging from energy demand to trade to military spending. Randy Forbes, a Virginia Republican, said he and eight members of the House of Representatives started the bipartisan Congressional China Caucus […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: Given the current fascination with all things Chinese, its language naturally comes to mind as possible substitute for English when Asians are dealing with each other… But things are not so simple. China’s ideographic writing is hard enough for the Chinese, let alone for others. Even countries most subject to […]
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