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 IHT, via the San Jose Mercury News: The Roman Catholic Church and the Chinese government are actively exploring the re-establishment of diplomatic relations, with contacts between the sides warming to the point that the ailing John Paul II quietly received a quasi-official Chinese delegation in the Vatican late last year. In a half-dozen […]
Read MoreFrom the AP, via the Washington Post: To meet soaring demand for Asia’s newly affluent, venerable names such as Prada and Giorgio Armani are setting up stores as quickly as they can _ and even considering making some of their products here. “China is certainly the most prominent and most important market we have in […]
Read MoreWNYC’s On The Media interviewed CDT’s Xiao Qiang about China’s Internet: Last month, the Chinese government was spooked by a wave of anti-Japan street protests. Not because of what the protesters were...
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: China recently published the country’s first serial report on environmental topics, written by Zhe Fu, a dedicated environmental writer. The three books are in-depth reports on the environmental situation in the three major river basins of the Yangtze River, Yellow River and Huaihe River. These areas all have encountered serious environmental problems during […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: President Hu Jintao met with the secretaries-general of Japan’s two ruling coalition parties in Beijing on Sunday, calling on both countries to work for the long-term healthy and stable development of bilateral relations. He said strengthening dialogue and communication with them would have a positive impact on improving and promoting China-Japan relations when […]
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