Robert McKenzie reviews Chinese Week with China watchers.

Is the picture we get out of the country accurate? How effectively can Western journalists penetrate that closed society?

Peter Fiddick of The Guardian gives a critic's view.

David Bonavia of the Far Eastern Economic Review, Dr Felix Greene, Professor Edward Luttwak, Julian Pettifer and the BBC Peking correspondent Philip Short discuss the day-to-day work, the difficulties and the pitfalls for the reporter in China and also try to unravel what is going on there at the moment.