Al Jazeera discusses Chinese press freedom

The show begins with an excellent backgrounder on the current state of press freedom by Tony Chen who interviews people like Melinda Liu, Newsweek's Beijing bureau chief and president of the Foreign Correspondents Club of China; former CCP official Bao Tong who is now under house arrest, and Huang Tianliang, the former chief editor of Bai Xing magazine 《百姓》who was dismissed for a report on farmers who lost their land due to corrupt party officials. The second part of the show features a discussion between Shi Anbin, journalism professor at Tsinghua University and Stephen Vines, former president of Hong Kong's Foreign Correspondents Club.