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.
Artist Ai Weiwei, who spent several months in detention after being effectively “disappeared”, is now considering whether to continue with his activism or to heed the calls of family and friends who are asking him to...
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Read MoreIn the Sydney Morning Herald, John Garnaut has an opinion piece about China’s recent actions involving its relationship with Libya, both before and after the fall of Gaddafi: Chinese foreign policy is famously pragmatic,...
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