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.

The myth of 1.3 billion cans of Coke (Asia Times)

According to Chi Lo in his new book, The Misunderstood China: Uncovering the Truth Behind the Bamboo Curtain, great ignorance of China’s economic issues runs unchecked in current world discourse, the implicit danger of which is that, should our misconceptions of China today be enacted in the form of, say, “raising anti-dumping and safeguard measures […]

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June 4 clampdown

Taiwan’s National Security Bureau has said that documents allegedly proving that the ruling DPP has provided financial aid to Chinese dissidents overseas and recruited them to spy for Taiwan are forgeries, according to a report in the Taipei Times. Beijing released the documents one week ahead of the 15th anniversary of June 4. Dissident Yang […]

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The First Chinese forum online (People’s Daily)

“A seminar on the firth birthday of “Strong China Forum”, dubbed “the first Chinese forum online”, was held in Beijing on May 12. People including responsible persons of departments concerned, scholars and netizens attended the seminar. Since born in 1999, “Strong China Forum” has had over 280, 000 registered clients with 12, 000 posts per […]

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Repression.com

The Columbia Political Review, published by students at Columbia University, has posted an essay on the Internet in China called Repression.com. The article concludes on an optimistic note: “While the picture may still be bleak today, there is hope for the future. Chinese people are beginning to push against the government online, and the government […]

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