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.
According to reports in the NY Times and Washington Post, Donald Keyser, a former high-ranking State Department official who worked on China, has been arrested on suspicion of providing documents to Taiwan and for concealing a trip to Taiwan. The Post story is here. The New York Times story is here.
Read MoreAccording to an AP report: “Toyota Motor Corp. will begin making its ecologically friendly hybrid model in China by the end of 2005, the first overseas assembly for the company’s Prius vehicle. ”
Read MoreChinese government policy has forced the country’s Muslims to exist in isolation from Muslims around the world, according to a report by the BBC. The lack of religious freedom clearly limits the ways Chinese Muslims are able to practice their faith, but the enforced isolation has an unexpected benefit, especially for women believers: “Beijing’s tight […]
Read MoreAfter Google’s launch of a Hong Kong-based Chinese-language news service, several local media organizations have threatened to sue the California company over copyright infringement. The full South China Morning Post story is here.
Read MoreAccording to the Washington Post, the outcome of yesterday’s Hong Kong legislative election, which gave the Democrats additional seats but not a majority, “represented a setback for the campaign to persuade Beijing to allow universal suffrage here. ” The Straits Times, meanwhile, reports that, “Hong Kong media criticised Beijing yesterday for meddling in this weekend’s […]
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