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 CBC News: Just hours after Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was named Pope Benedict XVI, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman said Beijing is willing to improve the relationship between China and the Vatican on two conditions. One is that the Vatican break off diplomatic relations with Taiwan and recognize the government in Beijing and that Taiwan […]
Read MoreMany German papers’ opinion pages focused on China today, and Spiegal translated excerpts of their viewpoints: The China question — which encompasses both the political and the economic interests of Europe — dominates the editorial pages of Germany’s papers on Tuesday. On balance, the analysis is that Germany is involved in a competition for Chinese […]
Read MoreFrom National Defense Magazine: The People’s Republic of China not only is producing a wide array of weapons systems for its own forces, but also is exporting versions of its military hardware to other nations under the wary eye of the United States… While China has taken steps to regulate its arms manufacturers, it still […]
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post, via AsiaMedia: Today, the enclave’s 460,000 residents are served by eight Chinese and three Portuguese daily newspapers, five Chinese and one Portuguese weeklies, an English daily and dozens of magazine titles; all this on top of a raft of publications imported from Hong Kong and the mainland. Each morning, […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: Much has been made of signs that Chinese President Hu Jintao’s leadership of the Communist Party, the government and the armed forces would allow non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to flourish, as the party would realize that it needed to rely on civil-society groups. But on March 21, Chinese authorities ordered that all NGOs […]
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