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.
Russian officials announced that Chinese National Petroleum Company could take a 20% stake in a key subsidiary of Russia’s embattled Yukos oil company. Yuganskneftegas was recently purchased by the state-owned Rosneft, which is planned to merge with Gazprom. Yukos’ chief, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, was arrested on corruption charges last year. See reports in the New York […]
Read MoreThe People’s Daily has published a report lauding improvements to citizens’ lives since the country joined the World Trade Organization three years ago: “According to statistics from the Ministry of Commerce (MOC), there are 250 million urban employees in China, 25 million of whom work for foreign-funded companies. The jobs of 80 million Chinese are […]
Read MoreAccording to a new survey by the State Working Committee of Chinese Language, only 53 percent of Chinese are able to communicate in Mandarin, or Putonghua. The survey results were reported by the South China Morning Post and by China Daily. According to the China Daily report, via Sohu: “Only 18 per cent of those […]
Read MoreJohn Pomfret, former Beijing Bureau chief for the Washington Post, read a commentary on NPR tonight arguing against recent coverage implying that China’s growing influence in Latin America and Southeast Asia poses a threat to the US. Download the audio clip here.
Read MoreThe Guardian reports on the recent arrest of Chen Min, aka Xiao Shu, editor of China Reform magazine, who arrested this week. He has been released, according to Boxun news and AFP: “‘I am back in the office,’...
Read More
Click on the image to download Firefly for circumvention
CDT is a non-profit media site, and we need your support. Your contribution will help us provide more translations, breaking news, and other content you love.
