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.

“Mr. Director, Please Resign!”[Update]

It was recently discovered that medicine capsules had been manufactured with toxic materials made from scrap leather. Twenty-two people have been detained so far in this latest product safety scandal. On Sina Weibo, a netizen...

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“The World’s Most Important Story”

Jonathan Watts has spent the past nine years covering China and the environment for the Guardian. As he prepares to move to a new job covering South America for the paper, he delivered a parting speech at the 2012 China...

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After Scandal, China Takes a Moral Inventory

In the New York Times, Didi Kirsten Tatlow writes about the crisis of legitimacy that has hit the Communist Party of China in the wake of the Bo Xilai scandal: With Mr. Bo’s fall amid lurid accusations of corruption and murder,...

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