China: Lindsey Hilsum answers your Twitter questions
As China appoints its new leadership team, Channel 4 News’s international editor took to Twitter to answer your questions on the secretive superpower.
Lindsey Hilsum, who is in China reporting on the 18th national congress of the Communist Party of China, gave her views to Channel 4 News’s Twitter followers in a half-hour session on Wednesday morning.
She was tweeting as the national congress comes to a close. The congress has seen a shake-up of China’s powerful politburo standing committee, with a new president and prime minister appointed and seven out of the nine members of the committee departing.
Read some of the questions and answers below, and to find out more from Lindsey you can follow her at @lindseyhilsum or head to her blog.
@nigeriawhatsnew @channel4news China is rich. Huge currency reserves, massive growth. But the rich/poor gap also huge and growing.
— Lindsey Hilsum (@lindseyhilsum) November 14, 2012
– @britt_w #chinaqus Lindsey responds: Foreign female reporters are treated exactly the same as men here. No problems. But there are…
— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) November 14, 2012
– @britt_w #chinaqus … no women at the top of the Party and women at the Congress were “decorative” – pouring tea and smiling.
— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) November 14, 2012
@jimmythefool #chinaqus Lindsey responds: Ourarrogant and conservative societies have a lot to learn from Chinese people – enthusiasm…
— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) November 14, 2012
@jimmythefool … hard work, curiosity about the outside world, determination to educate their children well, embrace change. So much!
— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) November 14, 2012
– @sparklypinchy #chinaqus The Chinese media are controlled by the party. Every week a govt department issues a list of banned phrases…
— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) November 14, 2012
@sparklypinchy #chinaqus … and subjects. Some brave journalists try to get round the censorship, but it’s harder now than when I…
— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) November 14, 2012
– @sparklypinchy #chinaqus … lived here five years ago.
— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) November 14, 2012
@punchcroft @channel4news I think communism just means the supremacy of the Party. There’s no ideology any more.
— Lindsey Hilsum (@lindseyhilsum) November 14, 2012
Read all the latest from Lindsey Hilsum in China here.