Sophie Beach

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.

Jonathan Watts: Where cabbies are cheery but skint

From the Guardian: Beijing has some of the most downtrodden taxi drivers on the planet. According to the China Daily, the average cabbie works 106 hours a week, and takes home only 1,817 renminbi (¬£120) a month. Even as China’s economy steams ahead, their earning potential is slowing down. Traffic volume has doubled in less […]

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Beijing lifts controls on migrants

The Beijing government has decided to abolish strict rules controlling migrant workers. From China Daily: Beijing announced the end of its rules limiting the life and work of immigrants Friday. While praising the local government’s magnanimity, experts also worried that the capital will face a population expansion in the near future. Deputies to the 19th […]

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We have redesigned the site to make it more interactive, informative, and dynamic. This is a participatory media site, and we aim to use cutting-edge social software applications to build a vibrant online CDT community. We...

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Boston Globe: Rice’s taunts to China

From the Boston Globe: SECRETARY OF State Condoleezza Rice’s six-country, eight-day tour of Asia was a welcome foray into direct diplomacy. In India and Pakistan, Rice soundly encouraged peaceful relations between the two nuclear powers. However, when it came to the nettlesome issues of North Korea’s nuclear weapons capability and the future of US relations […]

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China to be world’s top outsourcing destination

From Financial Express (India): Three-quarters of US companies outsourced some or all of their information technology activities in 2004. And that percentage is likely to increase this year, according to a special survey on outsourcing and offshoring, the Global Outsourcing Report, released by Horasis and Going Global Ventures said. While a smaller percentage of companies […]

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