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.
Three articles about prospects for China’s economy: Bloomberg writes, So, for better or worse, China seems keen on rolling the dice and letting the economy zoom ahead. Putting stability in the short run above long-term inflation risks could backfire and cause considerable instability. Yet the rest of the world has little choice but to hope […]
Read MoreFrom the IHT: It has been nine months since the government of Guangdong Province, across from Hong Kong, first acknowledged an acute shortage of workers. And the situation has not improved: In February the provincial government said one million workers were needed in this highly industrialized part of China that is, without exaggeration, the factory […]
Read MoreChina’s economic clout in various African nations has been widely reported in recent years. But according to this Christian Science Monitor article, China is also exerting a powerful political influence in countries such as Zimbabwe: China is increasingly making its presence felt on the continent – from building roads in Kenya and Rwanda to increasing […]
Read MoreAccording to the website of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China in Washington, Jilin City will be the first local government in China to enact rules overseeing the publication of news online: Jilin city in Jilin province has announced that a new city ordinance will take effect on April 1 regulating who can post news on […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Wang Jin, the chief guest conductor of the Komische Oper, or Comic Opera, here remembers how he started violin lessons in his Beijing roughly 30 years ago. “We had to put a mute on the violin,” he said, “and we drew heavy curtains over the windows, so nobody could see […]
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