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BBC brings its hot seat to Shanghai
HOME > PAST ISSUE > REPORTS [Premium content]April 2005
BBC-TV brought its popular debating show <i>Question Time</i> to Shanghai last month, corralling a lively panel that included Liu Jianchao, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson; China's chief WTO negotiator Long Yongtu; David Tang of fashion label Shanghai Tang fame; Chris Patten, Hong Kong's last governor before its return to China in 1997 - and Isabel Hilton, writer, broadcaster, but most notably for debating purposes, an outspoken critic of China's policy on Tibet.
A question about the future of China's one-child policy led off the discussion, which went on to cover more heated topics like China's newly promulgated anti-secession law, universal suffrage in Hong Kong, and China's human rights record. Program host David Dimbleby called the show's staging in China "a breakthrough." "To have a program from China with known critics of the Chinese government on the panel is something I never thought would happen," he said on the ...
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