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.
We were recently sent this document “A Case Study of the Southern Metropolis News case,” which is based on notes of a meeting in March attended by the newspapers’ defense lawyers . The notes were taken by Xu Zhiying, one of the lawyers for the editors there who have been imprisoned on spurious “corruption” charges. […]
Read MoreDoctor Jiang Yanyong is not being allowed to travel to the Philippines to receive the Ramon Magsaysay award, Asia’s highest honor. According to a VOA report in Chinese, Dr. Jiang was visited by a military official who told him that, as a military employee, he is not allowed to collect foreign awards. The VOA report […]
Read MoreChinese Vice Premier Wu Yi (aka the “Iron Lady”) has been named the second most powerful woman in the world by Forbes magazine, following only Condaleezza Rice. The full report is here: “Proud, elegant, intelligent, Wu Yi impressed her party’s leaders when she deftly helped hammer out five trade agreements with Russia in 1999 and […]
Read MoreThe wife of an anti-corruption crusader was severely injured in a bomb attack on their home last week. According to an AP report, “The attack Aug. 19 on the home of Li Haisheng, head of the city’s anti-corruption bureau, highlights the perils faced by officials and ordinary Chinese who try to fight the rampant corruption […]
Read MoreThe Chinese government has cancelled 4800 development zones. The China Daily reports that, “According to incomplete statistics from Ministry of Land and Resources, among 6,866 development zones across the country, 70 per cent were found to have illegally acquired land or were left unused. ” The full article is on Asia News Net.
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