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.
China Pledges Rural Reforms to Boost Incomes
Posted by Sophie Beach | Dec 23, 2012
As part of incoming Premier Li Keqiang’s plan to focus on China’s urbanization, new policies will aim to develop rural regions and narrow the rural-urban divide. From Bloomberg: The government will increase...
Read MoreInternet Controls Tighten Under New Administration
Posted by Sophie Beach | Dec 23, 2012
As Internet users in China have reported, scaling the Great Firewall of Internet censorship by using VPNs has become increasingly difficult in recent weeks, with several of the most reliable services being blocked. As the...
Read MoreAmbassador Locke: US ‘Not Trying to Contain China’
Posted by Sophie Beach | Dec 20, 2012
At a recent event at the Asia Society in New York, Ambassador Gary Locke spoke with Asia Society’s Orville Schell and George Stephanopolous of ABC News about the current status of U.S.-China relations and the new...
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