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 Committee to Protect Journalists has posted the new edition of the annual report Attacks on the Press, which covers press freedom conditions around the world. Read the China chapter. Read the full report.
Read MoreReuters reported today that: “Intel Corp, the world’s largest chip maker, said on Wednesday it will not develop applications based on Chinese encryption standards for wireless computing, taking a hard line in an ongoing dispute between U.S. technology companies and China.” See full report on the Washington Post’s website.
Read MoreAsia Times Online reported on March 4: “China is cracking down on Internet news discussion websites in an effort to stifle dissent in the run up to the annual session of the National People’s Congress (NPC)… But the crackdown may not last very long, as Internet news discussion groups are very popular, though they have […]
Read MoreThe BBC reports today: “China is the world’s fastest-growing internet market, with 80 million online, more than the number of members of the country’s ruling Communist Party. Riding the boom is dangdang.com, the company hoping to become China’s version of the hugely popular amazon.com website in the West.” Read the full report here. See the […]
Read More“China’s government keeps watch over the Internet and blocks controversial websites. But some Chinese webusers won’t be deterred. They’re surfing past Beijing censors with help from the outside. The World’s technology correspondent Clark Boyd tells how some Chinese are hacking through the great firewall of China. ” Listen to the audio report here. Scroll down […]
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