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.
Illegal mine owners are taking advantage of rising demand for gold, and surging prices, and exploiting the migrant workers who find work in the dangerous mines. From Bloomberg: Trade volume on the Shanghai Gold Exchange, set up...
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Read MoreChina Geeks has translated part two of an investigative report by Wang Keqin into the case of Chen Xiaofeng, who was killed after being hit by a car driven by the son of a local official, Li Gang. Part One is here. Read more...
Read MoreThe Time blog reports: The top U.S. commander in the Pacific says the Chinese military has developed and begun deploying a new missile capable of sinking U.S. aircraft carriers. Adm. Robert Willard says the DF-21D is designed to...
Read MoreAnother report from the Guardian’s Jonathan Watts, this one about recent cases of online activism in China: An activist decapitated, a journalist killed, a lawyer beaten, a magazine closed and an embarrassing legal case...
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