But all the editorial decisions are made by the media practitioners, and they don't intervene with our news. VKH: Well, like all the public service, we have funding. JB: How much of a role does the Chinese government play in the daily operations of CRI? But for all the stories that happen in this region, I would say that it comes to one that is very significant only. CRI is very interested in mapping the whole world, to all the audiences it can reach. But it wouldn't be possible for CRI to provide a specific service to targetting this audience. VKH: Yes, I would say, because anything which is significant that is interesting would be the content that CRI are interested in. JB: When Pacific Islanders can tune into China Radio International these days, will they hear any content about them, about the stories and issues that they are confronting? And we have business programmes, covering the news globally, what is happening in the stock market and the policies, especially what's happening in the world (how it) could influence not only China but other regions. This programme is really, really welcome. And sometimes people need further discussions, even after the topic. We have Chinese panellists and foreign panellists who discuss together, finding out different perspectives, viewing events from different cultural backgrounds, and what is coming out is normally mutual understanding. People talk about culture and conflicting issues happening in China and around.
And we have talk shows which are called roundtable. We also have programmes about Chinese literature, telling it in a story-like way so people can understand what's happening. And also we have the language learning programmes to learn Chinese in an interesting way. This covers about social events and literature, music, film and things like that, and technology developments and stories of Chinese people, and foreigners living in China. Also we have feature programmes called Studio-Plus. So we have hourly news about what's happening in the world, what's happening in China, and what's happening in some English-speaking areas, regions.
VIOLA KUO HUANG: The English service of China Radio International is really trying to braid the misunderstandings between the outside world and China.