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.
Didi Kirsten Tatlow: How Hong Kong Was Lost
Posted by Sophie Beach | Aug 13, 2020
The following is an excerpt of an article titled “How Hong Kong was lost” by Didi Kirsten Tatlow. Read the full text of the article at Project Sinopsis. In the article, Tatlow discusses Beijing’s “repurposing”...
Read MoreHong Kong Media Comes to Grips with Impact of National Security Law
Posted by Sophie Beach | Aug 13, 2020
The arrest of Next Digital publisher Jimmy Lai and the police raid of his Apple Daily offices marked an escalation of the crackdown on Hong Kong’s media freedoms, which entered a new, more active stage after the July 1...
Read MoreHong Kong Activists Face Challenges Abroad
Posted by Sophie Beach | Aug 11, 2020
With last month’s implementation of the National Security Law in Hong Kong, many activists and participants in pro-democracy protests have fled the city out of fear of imminent arrest. Several of those who remained have...
Read MorePhoto: Rainy night at Monk Kok, Hong Kong, by johnlsl
Posted by Sophie Beach | Aug 7, 2020
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