The Pulse：ATV, panel discussion with Ip Ka-po Executive Director of ATV & John Medeiros of CASBAA,

After months of uncertainty and rumour, after government decisions that have baffled many, there’s a dramatic turn in the story of the beleaguered ATV. After a special Executive Council meeting on Wednesday afternoon, the government announced it was not renewing the station’s free-to-air license. With us in the studio are Ip Ka-po Executive Director of ATV, and John Medeiros, Chief Policy Officer of CASBAA.
Early on Thursday morning, another cross was taken off the roof of another church in Ningbo. This is the latest move in the crackdown on Christianity and its churches in China's Zhejiang province, home to the country’s most Christian city, Wenzhou. Christianity arrived in China as far back as the Tang dynasty, and – worryingly for the Chinese Communist Party, which doesn’t countenance any alternatives to its authority – it’s getting ever more popular. It doesn’t help that Christian values are also regarded as a pernicious “foreign influence”.
To get a better understanding of what’s going on, our producer Jerran Lin recently visited Wenzhou, sometimes called “the Jerusalem of China”, where Christians told her they are facing the worst suppression in decades.