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 Asia Pulse, via Asia Times: Turning China’s abundant coal reserves into oil to help close a widening supply gap might once have seemed a little more than a dream, but synthetic fuels may soon be a key part of the country’s energy mix. Optimists say China could be making up to 1.2 million barrels […]
Read MoreThe Vancouver Sun reviewed the book Song of the Azalea by Kenneth Ore, and interviews Ore about his experiences as a secret agent for the CCP. The review is by subscription only but excerpts are available on the Song of the Azalea website. The Simon World blog has also reviewed the book.
Read MoreFrom Radio Free Asia, via Asia Times: In a grass-roots exercise in democracy, about 18 cities, provinces and districts throughout China are gearing up for elections to change their village chiefs. There is no room for the brother of a former Tiananmen democracy activist, though.
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: Most of the world’s attention is still focused on China’s economic miracle. The country’s national growth rate last year of 9.5% has prompted several international aid organisations to scale back or withdraw their operations there. When the World Food Programme announced recently that it was pulling out, its executive director, James Morris, […]
Read MoreFrom the BBC: It is only four years since China dropped homosexuality from its list of psychiatric disorders. Now, gay activists in China are using the internet and other high-tech methods to try to create gay communities. But even as China’s gays come tiptoeing out of the closet, they admit they are fighting an uphill […]
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