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.
Two Tibetans Self-immolate
Posted by Sophie Beach | Jun 21, 2012
Two more Tibetans have set themselves on fire in protest and one has died. The Washington Post reports: One of the two men who self-immolated Wednesday in Yushu prefecture, a heavily Tibetan area in west China’s Qinghai...
Read MoreAnalyzing the Five-Year Plan for Internet Development
Posted by Sophie Beach | Jun 21, 2012
Last month, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released a five-year-plan for Internet development. Rogier Creemers of China Copyright and Media blog has translated the document in full. Creemers has now also...
Read MoreSouth China Morning Post Accused of Self-Censorship
Posted by Sophie Beach | Jun 20, 2012
The South China Morning Post, Hong Kong’s premier English language newspaper, has come under fire for allegedly censoring a story about the death of dissident Li Wangyang, who was found hanged under suspicious...
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