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.

Inside China’s Censorship Machine

The National Post excerpts a section of Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle For Internet Freedom, by Rebecca MacKinnon, which explains the many layers of Internet censorship in China: China’s censorship system is...

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The Paradox of Prosperity

The Economist has launched a weekly section devoted to China, which it introduces with an article titled “The paradox of prosperity”: Only 20 years ago, China was a long way from being a global superpower. After the...

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Chinese Crackdown Seals Off Ethnic Unrest

Following large-scale unrest and subsequent reports of police shooting protesters in Tibetan areas of western Sichuan, authorities are cracking down in the region, including in Chengdu, 200 miles away from the violence. The New...

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