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 Taipei Times, via Asia Media: Explanations abound for the fevered anti-Japanese protests that broke out across China last month. From the Chinese perspective, of course, the blame falls on the Japanese government for its reluctance to apologize for the crimes Japan committed in World War II. But the Chinese media also played an […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: June 4 marks the 16th anniversary of China’s bloody repression of pro-democracy protests on Tiananmen Square. The legacy of the massacre has been put sharply in focus by the current debate over lifting the arms embargo imposed by the European Union in response to that event. At stake in the […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: In this desert oasis where East once met West and that is home to one of the world’s greatest shrines to Buddhism, the water is disappearing. Crescent Lake has dropped more than 25 feet in the last three decades while the underground water table elsewhere in the area has fallen […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: One is the 1,700-year-old Dachang Town in Chongqing Municipality, which will be submerged next year by rising waters from the Three Gorges dam project. The other will be a replica – with buildings dismantled and rebuilt on a new site 5 kilometres away and uphill, literally transplanted. And with regared to two residents […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via Globe and Mail: U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow predicted yesterday that China will give in to U.S. pressure within months for it to adopt a more flexible currency to tamp down calls for protectionist trade action. See also “China: Currency Reforms to Remain Gradual” from the AP.
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