China Reel (Mandarin)

Shenzhen announced municiple rules demanding accountability and professionalism in releasing news information. This is China's first. But how big a push for media transparency in China will it be? BBC reporter Li Li asks Professor Huang Yu from Hong Kong Baptist University. After press review, Hua Ying, the Editor of BBC Chinese Service, News and Current Affairs, explains some major changes taking place in our radio and online output.

Will the current trade disputes between US and China over tyres and, curiously, chicken, escalate into a full-blown trade war, despite signals from US trade officials that it won't? Will it affect sino-US cooperations in other areas, espcially climate change? Professor Pei Minxin from Claremont McKenna College offers his analysis